Three stone carvings, from before the days of the Spanish conquests, were displayed publicly for the first time on Friday since their return to Mexico. These pre-Hispanic artifacts had been in the safe keeping of the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, Florida, but were returned by that museum in August after it was determined that […]
This week marks the 168th anniversary of a British periodical’s announcement that potatoes in Ireland were infested with blight. On September 13, 1845, the Gardeners’ Chronicle printed the notice that they had stopped the press “to announce that the Potato Murrain has unequivocally declared itself in Ireland.” What followed was a nation filled with people […]
Houses listed on the National Register of Historic Places range from large, opulent mansions to small, rustic log cabins. All of them have some significance in American history, whether it was the people who lived there or events that took place. But inclusion on the list of places worthy of preservation is no automatic guarantee […]