From New York’s many New Year’s “sports and entertainments”—including football games, an open house at the Young Men’s Christian Association and an exhibit by the Society of Amateur Photographers, to ...

For more on the 1890s, read Michael Weinreb on mass plays, ... Conference) was born in 1896, and the South, where Sewanee grinded its way into college football lore with its Iron Men of 1899. ...

With famed film mogul Sam Goldwyn as her grandfather, Liz Goldwyn's family name is practically synonymous with old-school Hollywood glamour.

If you were on a high-wheel bicycle and hit a rock, you’d go tumbling over the handlebars and onto your head. To reduce accidents and injuries, inventors modified the high-wheel bicycle. By the 1890s, ...