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In the early 1890s color printing came to the big New York daily papers. The Herald was an early adopter and by mid-decade was putting ou...

This photo shows the Old Leather Man seated outside a house in Middlefield, Connecticut. It was taken sometime between 1869 and 1889. {Cap...

Years back, when Raghuram Rajan was chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, I used to post about the fragility of the global ec...

Made in 1914, this painting shows newspaper consumers at their task. {Caption: Subway riders, New York City, 1914, by F. Luis Mora, The Sun ...

On Thursday evening, April 23rd, exactly 115 years ago, New Yorkers seated in Koster and Bial's music hall were the first paying custome...

A couple of weeks ago we attended the funeral of an aunt. We'd had tea with her maybe a month before, but didn't know she had an ao...

Hannah Arendt opposed autocratic government in her homeland, left Europe to escape imprisonment, arrived in New York without resources, igno...