Looks like I'm not the only one who noticed how little "history" is actually featured on the History Channel these days. ...

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School House Rock is almost certainly too commie/librul/etc. for Sarah Palin - but she should really think about borrowing the DVD set...

Last night I watched Triangle: Remembering The Fire , an HBO documentary which commemorates the 100 anniversary of NYC's Triangle S...

I like to think of myself at someone who knows his Geography and History - after all, those are my two favorite categories of  Trivial ...

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OMG - the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell HAS led to the moral unraveling of the military! When the Wingnuts asked " What...

October is GLBT History Month - and Dust Bunny Bob over at I Should Be Laughing has been giving us an excellent and interesting history le...

According to Ephemeral New York - a fantastic blog, btw - the phrase " I heard it through the grapevine " may have originated in ...

Some eyewitnesses to history: Edmund White is the author of A Boy's Own Story (1982) and The Farewell Symphony (1997), among other bo...

The Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library is one of the most unique buildings in Greenwich Village - and indeed one of the...

... The President of the United States of America - Barack H. Obama . God Bless America. Feel free to share your feelings about today (and ...

Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay ( above ) was one of the "Bohemians" who put Manhattan's Greenwich Village neigh...

Tin Pan Alley is the nickname given to one single block in Manhattan - 28th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. This block became the epic...

Greetings from Carlisle, Pennsylvania! All children who attend school in Carlisle (as I did) are taught that the two most famous historical ...

Last night I watched the first installment of The War on PBS and it was fantastic. Produced by Ken Burns, The War tells the story of a han...