Articles with keyword "history"
Feature
Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas
Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.
Curio
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
A segmented miner’s lunch pail from the nineteenth century was, above all, practical, with stacking compartments for stews, pie, cobbler, as well as a cup on top for coffee, which was heated over a ca
Curio
German American Heritage Center
The zither, commonly found in southern Germany and other parts of alpine Europe, produces the “oompahs” so typical of German folk music.
Curio
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens
Stan Hywet (stone quarry in Old English) was built between 1912 and 1915 near Akron, OH, by cofounder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company F. A. Seiberling.
Curio
Revolt of the Masses
From Mass Moments, a website (www.massmoments.org) that is a daily almanac of significant events in the state’s history. It can also be received as a podcast or RSS feed.
Curio
Good Stable Manners
In Ancient Rome and Modern America, NEH-funded scholar Margaret Malamud looks at the ways visions of the imperial city have been incorporated into everything from the Constitution to Caes
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Wild Time in the Poconos
From The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume I, May 1832–April 1833, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, in which the aristocratic naturalist and
Conversation
The Public Historian
How Jill Lepore went from Harvard office temp to Harvard professor.
Ednote
Editor's Note, July/August 2011
In this issue we take in the legacies of two celebrated Americans, whose love of country was profoundly qualified. Robert E.