Dreamers Rise

Mr. Sullivan's lodgings occupied the back half of the top floor of a narrow four-story brick building on Bedford Street. There was a rat...

Matilda spent the month of July at her family's summer cottage in the Adirondacks. Her parents -- separately -- and her brothers, came a...

Aloft amidst the vapors Of an early morning dew Over old Manhattan Island Comes the sunlight's golden hue. Around me mammoth buildings. ...

Editorial cartoons from Electrical Worker: Official Journal of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1914 and 1915).

Through the night the roller-coaster and its screaming choir, and the soft, mechanical music of the carousel, go on, and the limousines stop...

Mr. T. Sullivan did not appear at Matilda's next modeling session, nor the one that followed it, and she decided that he probably felt t...

(William Edwin Safford's 1905 ethnobotanical classic has just been re-issued in a handsome facsimile edition by Guamology Publishing. Be...

This is way out of my price range, but what a gorgeous book this must be. "A great thick book of folk tales, illustrated with 62 full ...

Through the rest of the winter and into the spring Matilda modeled at least twice a week. There were classes every weeknight, but she was on...

(In the 1850s, fired by missionary zeal, the ladies of the Five Points Mission in Manhattan bravely battled poverty, squalor, intemperance, ...

When the term ended Matilda carried her finished compositions back to her apartment, and as soon as Isabel went out on an errand she opened ...

Matilda Eberle was eighteen years old. She was a little taller than other girls her age and passably pretty, though she was resigned to the ...

This will be a bit of an extended gloss on my previous post , which I devoted to an excerpt from Samuel H. Hadley's Down in Hadley Stree...

Call me a cynic if you like, but I can't help wondering whether there wasn't more to the following story, which can be found in Samu...

Luther Emanuel Widen alias Lew Ney likely rates barely a footnote in American literary history, but there was a time during the 1920s and ...

It was his second morning in the city. He had spent the night in a flophouse and when dawn came collected his things and went out in search ...

Luc Sante: At night sometimes in certain parts of the city, usually in those remaining streets that are left deserted, usually in winter, bu...

From her fourth-story window, open to the breeze, she looks out over the green and silent square. Overnight, without notice, the soldiers ha...

Thanks to a tip from the New York City Fire Museum , I have a tentative identification for Captain Michael E. Graham, whose promotion to Bat...