Actually, they were. In 1749, the Duke of Portland and the Earl of Chesterfield made

The term “cowboy” did not originate in the West.  It was the term for the

That’s what a patron of P.T. Barnum’s American Museum claimed. And he took Barnum to

Actually, it is.  Before 1966, Catholics were not allowed to eat meat during Lent.  So,

There is an old joke that you never have to outrun an angry bear.  All

While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt ‘came up empty.’

During the Second World War, the Germans were trying to bomb the Suez Canal to

Everyone loves a Fourth of July Parade! One of the nice things about historic photographs

As printed in the Tacoma Evening News on March 3, 1903, C. Payne, an armless

Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne was one of the few women warriors. 

You cannot tell some people to ‘be normal.’  And particularly not a woman in the

If you don’t live in Alaska, this is just a ‘quaint’ picture from the past.