Mention "America's first suburb" and most people instantly picture Levittown, New York, a seemingly endless landscape of uniform, affordable homes. This iconic post-World War II community fundamentally changed how millions of Americans lived, but it was not the first. The true story of the...
The 19th century was a period of vast and sometimes confusing change for American currency. Unlike the standardized dollars and cents we use today, money during this era was a messy, often distrusted, collection of coinage and countless varieties of paper notes. The century's...