I was lucky enough to visit Spain this summer and in order to prepare for my trip, I read a history of the country. This history had a fair...

In the 1844 Presidential election there were three candidates. The two main candidates, from the major parties, were James Polk and He...

For many important American leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, there was a ready market for quality, life portrait prints. ...

Along with the regular Antiques Roadshow programs, which show the Roadshow stops from the previous summer, the program has been airing a s...

I spend a lot of time in the summer driving or biking around the mountains of Colorado. Colorado is one of the most beautiful places in t...

George Pocock was a remarkable man who I found out about becaume of a fabulous "inflatable globe." Pocock ran a boarding school,...

I have been reading a fascinating article by Hazel Brandenburg about the rise in popularity of Currier & Ives prints during the 1920s (f...