Free of an Empire, by Way of an Empress
This posting was written by Dael Norwood, a Bernard & Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New-York Historical Society. On February 22, 1784, a small ship with big ambitions weighed anchor,...
View ArticleFrom “Splendid” to “Usurper”: The fickle story of the Ailanthus tree
Historians are accustomed to constructing human history through surviving texts, architecture, and images but the living world can help us understand our past in its own unique way. A particularly...
View Article“People generally are improving in their knowledge of good Tea”: 19th Century...
This post was written by Samantha Walsh, Reference Assistant in the Department of Prints, Photographs & Architectural Collections On September 9, 1828, a member of the Townsend family attended a...
View ArticleIntroducing the Henry R. Luce Papers
Henry Robinson Luce was born one-hundred-and-twenty years ago, on April 3, 1898, in China to American Presbyterian missionaries. Apart from a visit to the United States in 1906, young Henry spent his...
View ArticleThe 1923 American Silk Mission to Asia
Dancing geishas, ancient palaces, drifting over misty rivers in a houseboat. The adventures of a businessman traveling through China, Japan, and Korea in 1923 are captured within the detailed...
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