Attitude is everything for Brent Sass, winner of the 2022 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Always a challenging event, it was particularly
In 1887, Nellie Bly boarded the boat with the other patients bound for Blackwell’s Island, now known as Roosevelt Island. Their stay
It had been a few months since Steven Wang last spoke to his parents, located halfway across the world in China. He
There were more fish than people. Sisters Claire Neaton and Emma Teal Privat were raised on a remote Alaskaisland in a region
In the autumn of 1885, Cornelius Vanderbilt II paid a little over $400,000 for a summer cottage in Newport, Rhode Island. The
If you’re inviting Jacques Pépin to Thanksgiving dinner, you’d better have turkey on the table. How about something else this year, you
While a journalism professor at the University of Wyoming when I wore a younger man’s clothes, I became close friends with a
It has been said that the world always looks brighter from behind a smile. And that adage has been shaping Alina Morse’s
It’s nearly a 200-mile commute home for historian Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he travels once
Chris Hastings is comfortable in his own skin. Trim with short hair and glasses, he tucks his shirt in and speaks with
Her name alone is nearly poetic, but it is history and grandeur that give Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave her befitting nomenclature. She
Our house has brought together two people—my husband and myself—along with 17th-, 18th-, and early 19th-century hand-water-colored prints of flora and fauna
Not many recipes call for a pair of broken-in running shoes, 93 cinder blocks, and somewhere to sleep as part of their
Today’s stand-up comedy is filled with F-bombs and N-words. The monologues in late-night shows have turned into profanity-laced political rants that Standards
Nainoa Thompson did not set out to rewrite history. He just wanted to go for an adventure. But he accomplished both. Decades
Keith Krach, former undersecretary of state and current billionaire entrepreneur, first started working at his father’s Ohio mechanics shop when he was
Some 30 miles away from the hectic buzz of New York City, America’s wealthy elite once built luxurious mansions along Long Island’s
In this series, master woodworker Brent Hull will introduce readers to the different architectural styles that were popularized throughout American history, explaining
In 1843, young Richard Morris Hunt and family traveled from America to Europe, where he gained his formal education. Initially, Hunt pursued
The U.S. Capitol Rotunda is one of the most iconic spaces in the nation. High above its well-trod floors, the dome features
“The Capitol ought to be upon a scale far superior to anything in this Country.” —George Washington to Thomas Jefferson in 1792
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