Jumel Mansion Hosts Ice Cream Social to Commemorate President Washington’s Cabinet Dinner
By Lori Perkins As the world opens up post-pandemic, The Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan’s oldest private home, hosted an ice cream...
Donald Trump Killed the Confederacy
By Lori Perkins Remember that catchy ’79 song, “Video Killed the Radio Star?” in which the act of promoting a product becomes the very...
Review: Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation A Real Bromance
By Lori Perkins For those who were alive and reading in the late 20th century, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were fixtures on the...
Juneteenth is Finally Here for All!
By Lori Perkins Like the day it celebrates, it took years for the new holiday to become official. Juneteenth is the day when slavery in...
Review: “The City of Ali”
By Richard Perkins At first glance the newly released documentary, The City of Ali could be looked at by some as a run of the mill,...
FX/Hulu’s Pride a Necessary Step in Queer History Education
By David T. Valentin The eight-episode Hulu docuseries Pride following six decades of LGBTQ+ history premiered Friday night and its first...
Kim Kardashian Must Return Looted Roman Statue
By Lori Perkins A bizarre detail of leaking from the Kardashian/Wet divorce is that Kim must return a looted ancient statue to Italy as...
Waking the Jane Austen Museum
By Lori Perkins A lot of historical homes and museums are trying to re-examine their history and collections with an eye to the unspoken...
The Courtship and Marriage of George Washington and Martha Custis
By Lori Perkins Andrew W. Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. It’s George Washington’s birthday, so we thought...
The Marriage of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott
By Lori Perkins As we celebrate this national holiday I wondered about the wedding of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott, because...
Review: “The Truth is the Only Client” –A New JFK Conspiracy Doc
By Richard Perkins The film begins with Brendan Sheehan, an Ohio judge who was working in Cleveland, alongside Judge Burt Griffin, a...
Mary Wollstonecraft Honored with Controversial Statue 200 Years Later
By Olivia Haveron Image taken from the New York Times Placed inside Newington Green, North London stands the staure of a silvery naked...
How Accurate Are Historical Costumes Represented in Film?
During the age of Corona, and even prior, we flocked to our couches or theaters to experience the art of film. Especially with historical...
100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
On August 18, 1920, by a vote of 50-47, Tennessee became the last state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, finally giving American...
Timeless Love Through Letters
Photos by Lindsy Wolke They say love is timeless. That’s certainly true for Elias Maxwell and Ilaine Murray, who eternalized their love...