Today, the Roman emperor Vespasian, 69-79 CE, is best known for the construction of the

This is the Kay Linton Memorial Ice Fountain outside the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska. 

You would have to have been an Alaskan in the last century to understand the

In about 1910, Alaska Gold Rush newspaper editor/printer/investigative reporter George Hinton Henry published scathing but

Like many fashions, high heels have come a long way since the 10th Century when

25th Infantry Regiment, 1890  At the end of the Civil War, many black Union veterans

In 1854, Levi Boone became Mayor of Chicago on the Know-Nothing Party whose tenets were

Not much of a photo, eh?  I agree. But in the early days of Alaska,

An ancient Greek joke tells of a master and his slaves who are on a

The Golden Age of Hollywood glamorized the cowboy and the Wild West. Unfortunately, what appeared

All Roman roads had mileage stones, set one thousand paces apart. The term “mile” comes

Anne Royall was one of – if not the first – first female journalist. She