by Kate Dolan | Mar 29, 2014 | 19th Century America, Articles, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History
With the way history is taught in schools these days, more kids could tell you about the accomplishments of Rosa Parks than those of George Washington. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is a subject I’m not going to tackle at the moment. The injustice I...
by Kate Dolan | Jun 5, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History, The Irish
On this day in 1870, Jacob Riis stepped off a ship from Denmark to begin a new life in New York. The immigration office found him a job in western Pennsylvania, but news of a war in Europe prompted him to soon return to New York City to volunteer to serve in the...
by Kate Dolan | Mar 2, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History, The Irish
This month, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I’m going to write about Irish things, or more accurately, Irish-American things since the holiday is really an American one. Regardless of the celebration’s origins as an Irish Catholic day of prayer, it is now a day when...
by Kate Dolan | Jan 11, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History
The other day I went looking for Hell. I was in New York and had a few hours to kill so I checked the map for things near my hotel and I saw we were near the neighborhood labeled “Hell’s Kitchen.” I’d been reading about the 19th Century tenements of the Five Points...
by Kate Dolan | Jan 6, 2011 | Latest Posts
When I considered taking a Bolt bus from Baltimore to New York, I looked online and read such a mixed bag of reviews I didn’t know what to think. Bolt was either a revolution or just revolting, depending on who you read. So as I was getting ready to leave, I decided...
