Through Dorothea Lange’s camera lens, we saw the faces of the forgotten. Her photos visually narrated the struggles of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Japanese internment.

Adolf Hitler’s life from 1907 to 1920 shaped his future political career and the rise of the Nazi Party. 

On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was having tea at a friend’s townhouse on North Washington Square. Seeing this horrendous tragedy led her to work on changing the conditions of the workers. From 1911 to 1915, the New York State Factory Investigating Commission examined factory working conditions and recommended reforms. Under Perkins’ direction, lawmakers passed thirty-six laws, improving workplace safety, fire codes, sanitation, child labor restrictions, and mo

Dr. John Tyler built a Spite House as big as his ego when he built the 9,000 sq. ft. building in 1814 to keep the city from building a road next to his home.

AI is good for preliminary fact-finding, initial proofreading, grammar, initial sources, and potential corrections. It rarely gives the complete picture.

The revolutionary in early-childhood education, Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952), believed in the creative potential of children and...

The Seattle, WA’s 1925 Spanish Revival style Spite House in the historic Montlake area is at its slimmest only 55 inches, and at its widest, 15 feet. The wedge-shaped home has 860 square feet of living space, two bedrooms, and two bathrooms within its two stories.

A ten-foot, four-inch-wide home in Boston sold in 2021 for $1.25 million. Boston’s Skinny House, sometimes referred to as a spite house, is at 44 Hull Street in the city’s North End.