Sarah Josepha Hale was a pioneering writer and magazine editor, and the ‘mother of Thanksgiving’ for helping to establish it as a national holiday. In 1839, she published her book, Poems for Our ...

Following a 40-year career in the military, Taylor – or ‘Old Rough and Ready’, as he was called – became a national hero for his remarkable victories in the Mexican-American War (1846-48). As a major ...

The history of wigs goes back at least 5-6,000 years, when the ancient Egyptians considered them a status symbol. The merkin of the early modern period, meanwhile, was not meant to show off the top of ...