The Gilded Age Craze for the Chafing Dish
byThe chafing dish (from the Old French chauffer, “to make warm”) gained a certain cache in the Gilded Age, morphing from a simple brazier…
Research Notes: Harper’s History of the War in the Philippines
byDo you remember the days of card catalogs? Or the days when, if your library did not have the book you wanted, you had…
America and the Great War
byOn April 6, 1917, the United States formally declared war on Germany and the Central Powers. Unlike Europeans, during that fateful summer of 1914,…