On November 29, 1877 -- one hundred and forty-one years ago today -- Thomas Edison first demonstrated the device that he would patent s...

The modern holiday of Thanksgiving has become totally enmeshed with the story of the Pilgrims and The Mayflower, though the feast held by th...

Installation view; Whitney Museum of American Art. Photography by Ronald Amstutz A few years ago, James wrote a story for Curbed about...

image of the Malbone Street subway crash courtesy of the New York Transit Museum When Governor Andrew Cuomo jokingly (?) suggested the ...

I've got an old mule and her name is Sal Fifteen years on the Erie Canal She's a good old worker and a good old pal Fifteen years on...

site for processing whale oil, Antarctica On October 18, 1851, a novel called The Whale  by Herman Melville was published in England. It...

On October 11, 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded. The organization was created as part of a wave of patriotic sen...

NEW YORK IN THE GILDED AGE WALKING TOUR   Sunday, October 7, at 11:00 a.m. Come Explore Beaux-Arts Grandeur   ...

For nearly four centuries, the lower tip of Manhattan has been defined by Wall Street, the path of which was originally marked by a nin...

NEW YORK IN THE GILDED AGE WALKING TOUR   Sunday, October 7, at 11:00 a.m. Come Explore Beaux-Arts Grandeur   ...