Blogs about United States of America

Recently I've been roaming through Alabama Mosaic again, a place of infinite distraction, and here's the result this time. The document below can be found here and here at the Library of Congress' digital collection, …

During the past 150 years, the human race grew fabulously rich. This was an accident. The notion that ordinary people could be made prosperous—let alone that this could become a conscious project—would have, for most …

Connecting old and new.

Link21, the nascent megaproject to beef up the Bay Area's passenger rail network, features at its core a new underground transbay passenger rail crossing between Oakland and San Francisco. One of the major dilemmas facing …

Bernard Gussow was born in Russia in 1881. But by 1900 he’d made it to the Lower East Side, where he was described as an “East Side artist” in a New York Times article about …

'WORLD'S OLDEST ACTIVE COWBOY' TO MARK 94TH BIRTHDAY Tom Wauhab Shuns His Rocking Chair Despite Great Age By BILL STROBEL SUNOL, Oct, 20. - When most pioneers pass the 75-year mark, society is content to …

I’ve come across anecdotal evidence, suggesting hackberry trees were locally abundant during Ice Ages. Today, hackberry is a minor component of deciduous forests. I know of 3 sites dating to the Pleistocene where the remains …

The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament in 1765; effectively, it required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp. Included under the act were bonds, licenses, certificates, and other official documents as …

Another postcard from the Detroit Publishing Company, from 1903 or 1904, showing the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights. Pretty, if your taste runs to incredibly large churches. There’s only one problem …

Homeless Garden Project Farm 100-198 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz

ShareOver several years, Remo Polselli racked up over $2 million in federal tax liabilities. After he made a partial payment from the account of one of his limited liability companies, the IRS suspected Remo might …

Welcome to our inaugural group of USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars! In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, we are proud to host such a fantastic array of scholars Read more The post USIH-IUPUI …

Since 2018, the MBTA has been under contract to replace the CharlieCard and introduce a new fare payment system for the region’s transit systems. But the project is far behind schedule, in spite of a …

We are happy, as many of you are as well, to see the smoke finally dissipate from Washington and close out this year's crazy season. Who knew our first wildfire of the season would start …

Jak’s Grill is revealing a new community-minded mural this Thursday, March 30th, 2023, 6PM at its 4548 California Avenue location. That depiction of an early-20th-century streetcar is at the heart of West Seattle’s newest mural, …