April 11, 2022

Month: April 2022

Sheridan’s Ride To the Battle at Cedar Creek

Editor’s Staff

Sheridan’s Ride
To the Battle at Cedar Creek

Harper’s Weekly that proclaimed itself the Journal of Civilization was published in New York City by the Harper Brothers. The first issue was dated January 3, 1857. The content of the Weekly was mostly political news, but also domestic news

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Opening Lines

Ray Hahn

Opening Lines

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season

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United States Landmarks – Quiz Two

United States Landmarks
Quiz Two

Welcome to the Postcard History
United States Landmarks Quiz
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This is the second in a series of five quizzes. Each quiz will include ten challenges. There will be fifty challenges (questions). If you answer the

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Mount Lowe Railway – The “Railway in the Clouds”

Steven Taylor

Mount Lowe Railway

The “Railway in the Clouds”

Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe was an American Civil War aeronaut, scientist, and inventor, mostly self-educated in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and aeronautics, and the father of military aerial reconnaissance in the United States as well as the father of

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Charles Crombie, Cartoonist – The Rules of Golf Postcards

Ray Hahn

Charles Crombie, Cartoonist

The Rules of Golf Postcards

To name but a few, in the golden era of postcards with golf or golfing themes there were four cartoonists who did series of cards for Raphael Tuck & Sons or Valentine. Fred Buchanan, Lance Thackeray, and Bert Thomas worked

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