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Photo of a Kickapoo Indian Salve ad.

Sugar, a Mild Laxative, and a Dollop of Alcohol

by Peter Carlson11/21/202311/21/2023

Photo of flying machine patent drawing by W.F. Quinby.

Flight of Fancy, Doomed From the Start

by Melissa A. Winn11/14/202311/8/2023

Photo of a glass and bottle of absinthe with sugar cubes.

Green and Mysterious, Absinthe Caused Controversy Wherever it Was Poured

by Jesse Hicks10/17/202311/8/2023

Photo of the 1935 Broadway production, opera Porgy and Bess.

African American Theater Performers Turned Stereotype Upside Down

by Daniel B. Moskowitz10/11/202310/11/2023

Painting of a Indian burial mound excavated in 1850 near the Mississippi River, varied in height and dimension. They were typically erected in layers over several hundred years.

Thomas Jefferson, Grave Digger

by Rick Britton10/3/202311/9/2023

Photo of James Michael Curley bending the ear of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

Tweet! Jailbird Politicians, An American Staple

by Richard Brookhiser9/20/20239/20/2023

Photo of a general view of The Boott Cotton Mill Museum in the former textile manufacturing town of Lowell on the Merrimack River as part of the Lowell National Historical Park and the National Park Service on November 5, 2014 in Lowell, Massachuetts.

Young Women Were America’s First Industrial Workforce

by Carl Zebrowski9/19/20238/1/2023

Photo of Mayor James Michael Curley, dressed in his raccoon coat, hands out flowers during South Boston's traditional Evacuation Day parade on March 17, 1947. Mayor Curley's wife, Gertrude, in a smart green hat with a pink ribbon is sitting to his left and Edward J. "Knocko" McCormack in his Yankee Division uniform is in front. The parade originally commemorated the day the British left Boston on March 17, 1776 and now it also honors St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.

Although As Crooked As They Come, This Boston Politician Was Beloved

by Peter Carlson8/29/20238/1/2023

Photo of Lincoln Beachey piloting his Beachey Airship, mid to late 1900s.

Men Typically Have a Shorter Life Span Than Women—These Dirigible Daredevils Prove Why

by Bruce W. Dearstyne8/23/20236/14/2024

Painting of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln in His Own Words: The 16th President’s Musings About ‘negro equality’

by Ross E. Heller7/11/20237/12/2023