Tuxedo Park, NY - Gilded Age, International, Modernism in one place
"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain." Mark Twain During America’s Gilded Age, numerous people focused on the...
Cow paths, illicit trails, desire paths, and other urban trails
“We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.” Boston, one of the earliest cities in British North America, was founded
UPDATE - Lord & Taylor to close its flagship Gilded Age store at Fifth Avenue
A "monument to the ‘nonproductive consumption of time’” is replaced by an icon of the new startup economy Although many of New York...
Lord & Taylor—a century old “Ladies’ Paradise” for luxury and leisure loses its flagship store
A"monument to the "nonproductive consumption of time" is replaced by an icon of the new startup economy The Gilded Age in the United...
The Erbil Citadel—“history is alive among its walls”
Erbil (or Irbil or Arbil), the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, is one of the longest continually inhabited settlements in the...
Lessons from Ancient Rome—public and private funding of roads
All roads lead to Rome, as the saying goes, but constructing those roads often depended on a combination of political patronage, military...
Preserving African American heritage in the Hamptons
Sag Harbor is located in the towns of Southampton and East Hampton near the eastern end of the south fork of Long Island, New York. Today...
Pennsylvania Avenue—America’s Main Street from brothels to brutalism
Pennsylvania Avenue was included in Pierre L’Enfant’s original plan for the new United States capital and one of the first streets...
Washington DC receives funding to document its LGBT heritage
In 2016, the US National Park Service released online a report entitled “LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study.” Such theme studies are designed to...
Elberon, NJ—“the nouveau riche alternative to Newport” in the 1870s
The Gilded Age in the United States generally referred to the post-Civil War period from the 1870s to the turn of the 20th century, when...