women in history

The New World gambling parlor in Marysville, California in 1851 was filled with prospectors and sojourners eager to lay their money down on a game of chance.  Patrons could choose from a variety of amusements which included roulette, dice, faro and poker. The New World was a grand and ornate saloon.  An elaborate bar lined...

The New World gambling parlor in Marysville, California in 1851 was filled with prospectors and sojourners eager to lay their money down on a game of chance.  Patrons could choose from a variety of amusements which included roulette, dice, faro and poker. The New World was a grand and ornate saloon.  An elaborate bar lined...

Sarah Kirby threw down the newspaper and paced across the room, only to turn and race back to the crumpled pages.  She picked them up, smoothed them out, and once again read the diatribe against her penned by John Hambleton.  Sarah was stricken with grief at the suicide of Hambleton’s wife.  That the actor should...

Sarah Kirby threw down the newspaper and paced across the room, only to turn and race back to the crumpled pages.  She picked them up, smoothed them out, and once again read the diatribe against her penned by John Hambleton.  Sarah was stricken with grief at the suicide of Hambleton’s wife.  That the actor should...

A cluster of tents dotted a strip of frozen earth at the base of a massive glacier in Skagway, Alaska.  Beyond the solid layer of ice was a thick forest that followed the contours of a mountain.  The numerous trees that covered the ridge were like deep-pile carpet and the grassy scruff under the timbers...

By: Chris Enss On March 22, 1851, the steamship the Empire City arrived at the Isthmus of Panama.  The sun was hanging low below a bank of clouds and the busy seaport lay in purplish twilight.  Five ambitious school teachers stood on the deck of the vessel watching the crewmen weigh anchor.  Elizabeth Miller, Sarah...

Among the exhibits on display at P. T. Barnum’s American Theatre in New York City during the summer of 1864 was an actress and patriot of the Union Army named Pauline Cushman.  Billed as the “Spy of Cumberland,” the celebrated thespian was dressed in the complete uniform of an infantry man including sabre, a crimson,...