In September 1887, in broad daylight, a robbery took place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum…
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Just after sunset on a toasty evening in May 1903, a two-year-old trotting horse named…
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Almost 20 years ago when New York Almanack was founded I signed up for Amazon.com’s…
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When the Trees Came Back: The Great Battle to Save Vermont’s Forests by Robert A.…
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On April 19, 1989, a white woman was brutally raped and beaten in New York…
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Once considered a colonial Dutch holiday, Pinkster quickly became an African celebration of family, community,…
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It was the year 1898, and only days from the end of summer. A group…
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Christianity banned beer from the sacred domain as the Roman clergy continued the Latin habit…
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From December 1852 until August 1854, Frederick Law Olmsted, who later gained renown as a…
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In 1908, while attending Syracuse University, Alice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) kept a diary which is being…