Postcard Thursday is on a trip to Germany this week; we've been exploring Baden-Württemberg, the southern German state. Here's a...

We've had some glitched before with Postcard Thursday. Astute readers know that is sometimes appears as Postcard Friday, and there m...

Yesterday, James had a piece in CurbedNY about the history of the Broadway theater district. The story focuses on five Broadway houses ...

Earlier this week, February 27, was the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's famed "Right Makes Might" speech at the Cooper U...

Last July, James wrote a piece for Curbed about exploring modern-day New York City with a handful of 19th-century guidebooks as his only ...

This weekend marks a little remembered anniversary. On February 19, 1674, the Treaty of Westminster was signed, ending the Third Anglo-Du...

In honor of the snowstorm hitting New York City today, here are some photos from the New York Public Library's digital collection of ...

Today, Punxsutawney Phil, the world's most famous rodent, saw his shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of winter. Now, for anyone p...

On January 26, 1934, the Apollo Theater opened on 125th Street in Harlem. Though the building it was housed in was twenty years old, the...

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Poe would, in his short life, become one of the most important America...