At half past 5 o’clock on April 4, 1883, real estate tycoon Thomas Henry Blythe died suddenly at his home at...
Hardship, adversity and heartbreak can often serve as glue that binds families together. Such was the case with the ancestors...
While there is no doubt in my mind that our earliest female ancestors worked, and worked very hard, their choices for...
Oyster Trade By the mid 1860’s, the ever-growing oyster market in New York City was assessed at close to five million...
Born to a Quaker family on 15 February 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan Brownell Anthony was a teacher, an abolitionist,...
Patent medicines are not, as the name would suggest, medicines that have been patented but rather they are commercial products...
Yellow fever, or yellow jack, or even yellow plague is a virus spread by infected mosquitoes. It’s first symptoms are...
Long before the Europeans came to North America, the Mississippi River was used by the native people to travel from...