Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy
byFrom the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed…
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100 Years: Alpha Kappa Alpha
byThe history of Greek letter societies in America begins on December 5, 1776, with the founding of The Phi Beta Kappa Society at the…
Le Divorce, Edwardian Style
byWith love and marriage, there can unfortunately be divorce. For our Edwardian counterparts, divorce was a difficult and arduous process that could be, depending…