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The Sunday Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. October 24, 1948. From America's Historical Newspapers
Part 2: Death of a Clubman – Investigating the Cold Case
Part 1 recounted the unsolved murder of Joseph Brown Elwell, a wealthy man known for his card playing and womanizing. The Elwell case motivated S.S. Van Dine to write detective stories in the 1920s, which then inspired the creation of Ellery Queen decades later. The Ellery Queen detective stories led Readex Editor Brian Benoit to reopen the case of Joseph Brown Elwell to see what a retrospective of historical newspapers reveals. Whodunnit? The time has come to weigh in on...
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Making the Presidency: How John Adams Created Presidential Customs for the 21st Century. Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky.
How John Adams Shaped Presidential Customs for Modern America [Video]
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall...
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The Sunday Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. October 24, 1948. From America's Historical Newspapers
Part 1: Death of a Clubman - The 1920 Murder of "Whist Wizard" and…
All it took was one bullet to kill Joseph Bowne Elwell, shot in the forehead...
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Alice in Wonderland: A play. Compiled from Lewis Carroll’s Stories Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Emily Prime Delafield. 1898. From: Nineteenth-Century American Drama
"The Mainspring of Civilization:" Elements of Timekeeping
In a world where cellphones and wristwatches are ubiquitous, it’s anachronistic...
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George Washington's Farewell Address, Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 31540_1796
George Washington's Radical Decision: A Modern Precedent
On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the...
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Boxing mail -- N.Y. Post Office (LOC). Bain News Service, publisher. [between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915].
Birth Control – "...a vice upon which relentless war shall be declared.…
The Comstock Act (or Law), enacted on March 3, 1873, was formally titled "Act...
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Mrs. Yoshiye Abe, an American of Japanese ancestry, helps to make American flags in a Denver factory, from The Library of Congress
"This year, many persons of Japanese ancestry in the United States will…
July 4, 2024, marked 82 years since thousands of Japanese Americans faced...
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