Robert M. Keating's story is America's story. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1862 to poor Irish immigrants, he was just 13 when his father died suddenly

How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the ninet

McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a literary and political magazine, It introduced e

Part memoir, part micro-history, this is an exploration of the present through the lens of the past. We all know that the best way to study a foreign language i

Documents the record-setting, cross-country cycling trip by George Nellis in 1887.