Anna Safley Houston Collected Antiques and Husbands
Anna Safley Houston amassed a phenomenal antique collection and a remarkable collection of husbands.
Category: Once, in America history blog
Thanksgiving a ‘Yankee Abolitionist Holiday’
As sectional tensions grew before the Civil War, Southerners came to regard the New England holiday of Thanksgiving as a tool of abolitionists.
An American Ambulance Driver’s Experiences in the First World War
An ambulance driver in the First World War, novelist Henry Sydnor Harrison tells of what he saw at the Second Battle of Ypes in an interview shortly after his return to the States.
S-S-S-Smokin’! The long, sometimes humorous, debate over tobacco
Tobacco use has a long and checkered history filled with legends of heroism, health warnings, and sometimes humor.