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• We've Moved !!! Visit Us at Our New Address.

  Hi Everyone-- Viral History has moved to a new address on the internet. Thanks for your support over the years making us a go-to forum for history that... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• A New Crimean War? Really?

  

  As a historian watching Vladimir Putin's Russia flout international law to send troops into Crimea – part of the separate country of Ukraine – it is truly hard... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Yiddish Theater: Don't Forget Molly Picon

  

  Yiddish is not beautiful. Harsh and gutteral, it makes you twist your face to get the sounds out. Many of its words are bastardized from German, Slavic,... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Post: David Taylor on Anzia Yezierska, Part II

  

  Anzia Yerierska as a teenager in 1910s New York. Click here for Part I on Anzia’s rise, novels, films, and craft. Anzia Yezierska paid a price for being... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Blog: David Taylor on Anzia Yezierska, America's Immigrant "Hungry Heart"...

  

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  Posted on 21 January 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• More from Alice Longworth's Scrapbook.

  

  German newspaper clip shows Alice socializing with ladies aboard the steamer Schiffes in 1905. Click here for -- Alice and Nick Longworth engagement photos... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Alice Roosevelt and Nick Longworth: The Actual Engagement Photos

  

  Alice wasn't shy in saving photos of herself. This spread filled two full pages of the oversized scrapbook. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Health Food Claims? Nothing New Here.

  

   From the New York City's Jewish Daily News, July 12, 1926. "Zeit Gezunt!" says the headline. "Be Healthy!" This quarter-page ad for the "Natural Health Food... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• FAMILY HISTORY: Anniversary- One Hundred Years in America.

  

  Copy of the original ship's manifest. Our family is listed at lines ten through fourteen. From Ancestry.com. I can't let this September go without marking an... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• GUEST BLOG: Civil War- Antietam 1862 and Its Terrible General, George B....

  

  Oil painting of General George Brinton McClellan, from a photograph by Matthew Brady. With all attention these days on the national political campaign, let's no... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Photo: Roger Staubach and J. Edgar Hoover

  

  To celebrate the return of NFL football this week, our friend Sally Mott Freeman has given us this gem of a photo showing none less that Roger Staubach, star... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• POLITICS: The Five Longest Democratic Conventions.

  

  Delegates gather in Baltimore for the 1912 Democratic Convention. They would nominate Woodrow Wilson for President on the 46th ballot. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• POLITICS: Is It Time to Scrap the National Political Conventions?

  

  Thanks to our friends at the Huffington Post for first running this piece on August 27, 2012: Washington, DC -- When Republicans and Democrats meet at their... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• How an Act of Congress Killed the US Gold Market

  

  A view inside the New York Gold Room from Harper's Weekly, October 1869. Thanks to our friends at Bloomberg Echoes for first running this post last week on... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Paul Ryan for Vice President -- Three Quick Comparisons

  

  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, the 2012 Republican ticket. Photo from CNN. Mitt Romney may get a nice bounce in public opinion polls from announcing 42 year-old... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• How Negative Can a Campaign Get? Thomas Nast's Attacks on Horace Greeley, 1872

  

  Horace Greeley, pictured by Nast as as an out-of-touch nitwit in oversized coat and hat, oblivious to the sea of dead Union solidiers at notorious... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Great Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 1860

  

  He still looks young and vaguely handsome in this print, published by New York's Currier and Ives in May 1860. With sensitive eyes dominating the placid, sad... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Why I Hate This Year's Presidential Campaign !!

  Some of you have noticed that I've written very little -- almost nothing -- in this Blog lately about what usually is my favorite topic: politics. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2012 POLITICS

• POLITICS: In 1868, a Wild Fraud to Dwarf Today’s Political Sleaze

  

  Photo from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Thanks again to our friends at the Bloomberg "Echoes" financial history blog for running this... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• NEW SUMMER BOOK: Abraham Lincoln's Convention: Chicago 1860

  

  Scene in the Chicago convention hall at it prepared to nominate Abe Lincoln for president, from Harper's Weekly, May 1860. Every president is shaped by his... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS