Visitors to New York City’s famed Flatiron Building may have noticed the landmark’s lesser-known neighbor — a narrow ...

Sadie Jones was a schoolteacher in Lyon and Chase Counties up until around 1880. As a teacher, she had a soft spot in her ...

1880 Academy Drive in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will preside over the affair with city and community dignitaries in attendance. Chief Jim McDonnell is a 40-year veteran of the ...

Navajo weaving has been documented as early as the 1700s. They used upright looms with no moving parts and wool produced by ...

Five true stories of people who married objects, from famous landmarks to everyday items, in unique displays of devotion.

On Oct. 11, the Drammen City Archives in Drammen, Norway, hosted a ceremony to honor the gifting of a small Drammen photo ...

Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing was one of only two men ever to be named “general of the Armies of the United States” — ...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard.” — H.L. Mencken, legendary journalist and satirist (1880-1956) I’ll have the crow a la mode ...

Buy a round for local historical archaeologist Homer Theil, who just published the definitive history of Tucson saloons ...

The Alexander Coeur family first came to Humboldt in the 1880s, and started the Freshwater Store in 1894. Harold Coeur, a ...

Most economists are political apologists masquerading as economists. They are Rothbard’s “court historians” with degrees in ...

In 1880, the head of the family was Martin Comstock ... If you have an idea for a future Back in the Day column about a local historic person, place or event, contact Steve Lech and Kim Jarrell ...