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William Loren Katz’s Black Legacy: A History of New York’s African Americans (Seven Stories Press edition, 2026) unveils...

The great gray owl (Strix nebulosa) is a northern raptor that only occasionally graces our northeastern states. Also...

Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war....

On December 24, 1920, the young fireman and future fire chief Richard Norris, who had recently returned from...

Blacksmiths were integral personnel at frontier fortifications in North America during the 18th century. These iron smithies not...

On Monday, February 3, 1964, some 464,000 New York City school children, 45% of the city’s one million...

In 1908,  while attending Syracuse University, Alice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) kept a diary which is being published each week....

An outspoken critic of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, Jewish photojournalist Gisèle Freund fled her native Germany in...

It was 1930, during the era of Prohibition (1920–1933). So, it was not unusual when law enforcement personnel...

Wesley Bintz was a Civil Engineer who received his training at the University of Michigan, earning a BCE...