Dressed in the high fashion of the early 1800s, Carole Herrick and John Douglas Hall spoke eloquently about the War of 1812 as if it happened yesterday. Interactive play “An Afternoon with the ...

When Bettye Kearse’s mother went to her in 1990 carrying a box of carefully preserved memorabilia that showed her family’s connection to the U.S. presidency, Kearse was concerned. “I worried that my ...

She looked like royalty, or so thought many guests at the sight of Dolley Madison in her velvet inaugural gown and velvet and white satin turban with towering bird-of-paradise feathers. In full naval ...

I first saw the Madisons by chance. It was a summer Saturday night in San Marcos, and my brother Brighton and I were thirsty. So we set out for the strongest pour with the least offensive tab. That ...

More than two dozen towns and 19 counties (plus a parish in Louisiana) share the last name of the fourth president of the United States. But with the possible exception of that county with bridges out ...

What did you do on cold Saturday nights in February thirty-plus years ago? If you’re forty-something (or more), you may have done what I did: watch professional basketball games at the 12th Street Gym ...

Paul Hallwood (Letters, June 18) reveals a dazzling level of ignorance when he worries that “privately sourced unearned income” and rescinding US inheritance taxes would discourage work and turn us ...

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