Edge of the City

Aside from being a lover of fast food, I'm also a lover of history, and this truly brought a tear to my eye today...

World's Fair Anniversary Festival Sunday, June 7, 2015 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Free Join NYC Parks in celebrating the 50th ...

On the 70 th Anniversary of the end of World War II, journalist Charles Kaiser has written the untold story of one of the leaders o...

Photo Credit: Michael Perlman The Historic Districts Council, New York’s city-wide advocate for historic buildings and neighborhoods, a...

An excellent short film explores the Kennedy assassination, which occurred 50 years ago today...

An estimated eighty percent of American Jews are of Polish descent.  Poland was once  home to the largest Jewish population in Europe.  Yet...

Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III In one of Britain’s most dramatic modern archaeological finds, tests identified the remains...

“At a Nazi study course, a talking dog was once asked ‘Who is Adolf Hitler?’ and replied ‘Mein Führer!” OPINION Hitler’s Talking Dogs By...

150 years ago today, the first battle of The Civil War began, when the southerners opened fire on Fort Sumter, the Union fort in Charleston ...