WWI Wednesday: Homecoming of the Harlem Hellfighters
byNo band of heroes returning from war ever were accorded such a welcome as that tendered to the homecoming 369th by the residents of…
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The Mid-Winter Assembly, Baltimore, 1912
byIn 1908, William H. Bishop, Jr. invariably identified as “belonging to one of the oldest families in Maryland,” who was clerk in the Internal…
Jazz in Jazz Age Britain
byJack Ross (Gary Carr) in Downton Abbey, and the Louis Lester Band (Louis Lester is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) in Dancing on the Edge,…