Thomas Jefferson once said, “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
During three of the last four summers of the 1990s, I found myself in a situation that proved to
[Editor’s note: Through many years of collecting, one consistent thing has been that advertising postcards offer some of the most humanistic, interesting, and potentially educational history lessons. Stories such as this one of the Columbian Trio Concert Company would have long ago been
On Sunday morning, March 10, 1918, the Hopkinsville Kentuckian [published by Charles Meacham in Christian County, Kentucky, from 1889 to 1918.] reported news from the area draft board. The board announced, as they did in those days, lists of names of
Dear Grams,
I guess by now Mom has told you that I got drafted into the United States Army. The notice came in the mail early last April and I was ordered to report to the induction center at Frankford on September 10th. I
Hugh Chalmers was born on October 3, 1873. His parents, Thomas and Jeanette, had eight children; Hugh was the seventh. At age 14, Hugh Chalmers started work at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio.
There is an ancient legend about the name of the Elephant and Castle coaching inn in the painting above by John Charles Maggs. The name was meant to honor Queen Eleanor of Castille
Charles Jasper Glidden retired from a telegraph and telephone company at age forty-three. He had worked since age 16 and was a very wealthy man. Soon after retirement, he and his wife Emma sailed for Europe. He bought a car in 1901; it was
In his book, Professor Conrad Norcross Addison, historian in residence at the University of Alaska, recounts scores of roundtable conversations in which he participated in the late 1940s, ‘50s, and the early ‘60s. “Name three people you would invite to dinner,” was a favorite topic
The history of America’s West is filled with memorable characters whose names have been forgotten and their achievements ignored. Many of the forgotten were women, and many of those women were teachers. Teachers have been leaders in every civilization. They
HAZELDEN FARM
BROOK, INDIANA September 23, 1908
As a way of looking at history from two sympathetic perspectives, Jim Rasenberger’s book, America, 1908 came to market in January 2007 accompanied by the following review:
During the 366 revolutions that the earth made
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