Virulently anti-Catholic and anti-Irish, William “Bill the Butcher” Poole led Manhattan’s Bowery Boys street gang in the 1850s. Bill “The Butcher” Poole (1821-1855). Bill “The...
No one thought Adolphe Sax would make it past childhood after his myriad near-death experiences. But he did — and invented an instrument that revolutionized...
The RMS Lusitania had recently left New York when it was fatally torpedoed by a German U-boat. Unknown to the passengers on board, however, were...
Fifty years ago this summer, half a million hippies, beatniks, and long hairs descended upon upstate New York for a three-day music festival. The world...
