In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find recipes and instructions for building your own gingerbread house for Christmas... (Read More)
In this article, Jane Hampton Cook describes when and how newspapers started using the term “White House” for the president’s house. .. (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the 1933 discovery by a Nevada street-sweeper of his extraordinary family history... (Read More)
The brutal robbery of the Daviess County Savings Association Bank in Gallatin, Missouri, on 7 December 1869, first got Jesse James’s name in print... (Read More)
In this article, Jane Hampton Cook writes about a discovery she made about the history of the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving... (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the discovery of the only surviving gravestone of a Mayflower passenger: Richard More... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak writes about how the anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival was celebrated 200 years ago, in 1820... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to find riddles and puzzles that entertained our ancestors for the Thanksgiving holiday... (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the family heirlooms and Thanksgiving display of Mayflower descendant Ruth Grant Pearson... (Read More)
