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This New York City Map Is Full of Dutch Secrets
When Broadway was a broad way and Wall Street was a wall.
by
April White
via
Atlas Obscura
on
March 19, 2024
Do Americans Sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ Because of a Frat Party?
Or maybe it was the cigars that gave us this New Year's Eve staple.
by
April White
via
Atlas Obscura
on
December 29, 2022
The 19th Century Divorce That Seized the Nation and Sank a Presidential Candidate
When James G. Blaine went to war with his son's ex-wife in the national press, he had no idea that two could play that game.
by
April White
via
Politico Magazine
on
June 17, 2022
Seeking the Last Remnants of South Dakota’s ‘Divorce Colony’
How Sioux Falls became a controversial Gilded Age “Mecca for the mismated.”
by
April White
via
Atlas Obscura
on
June 14, 2022
Escape From the Gilded Cage
Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota.
by
April White
via
Smithsonian
on
May 24, 2022
Spelling Bee Champ Zaila Avant-garde Was Inspired by a Black Girl Named MacNolia Cox
The 13-year old Cox confronted Jim Crow when she traveled to the nation's capital to compete in the 1936 National Spelling Bee.
by
April White
via
Retropolis
on
July 10, 2021
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A Brief History of Comfort Food
Our newest culinary trend is also our oldest.
by
Stacy Wood
,
April White
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 30, 2020
A Brief History of Surveillance in America
With wiretapping in the headlines and smart speakers in millions of homes, a look back to the early days of eavesdropping.
by
Brian Hochman
,
April White
via
Smithsonian
on
March 22, 2018
The Divorce Colony
The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.
by
April White
via
The Atavist
on
December 8, 2015
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The Divorce Colony
: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
April White
2022
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