The Beverly Hills estate with ties to the Vanderbilt family, and later owned by MGM starlet Noreen Nash, is now available for ...

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.” ...

Saratoga’s most exclusive property — once the estate of Marylou Whitney — is for sale. Inside the effort to find a buyer for ...

France's "66 Minutes" tapped local potato chip historian Alan Richer for a segment on the origins of the internationally ...

Do new divorcées throw their wedding rings off the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno? Former Nevada state archivist Guy Rocha ...

It was built by Gilded Age railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt — grandfather of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who gifted Yale the funds to build the namesake Vanderbilt Hall on Old Campus to honor his ...

Back in 1896 when auburn-haired Grace Graham Wilson bagged young Cornelius Vanderbilt, most of New York’s 400 agreed that it was a most unsuitable marriage. As a great-grandson of the tough old ...

Frederick’s wealth and fame were thanks to his grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt. Cornelius was a self-made millionaire who became one of the richest men of the 19 th century. A determined ...

President Trump admires one of his long-forgotten predecessors. He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley, whose term bridged the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the ...

Some citizens of this republic will see Donald Trump’s second inauguration as a glorious new beginning; others will see it as a dispiriting surrender to the nation’s worst tendencies. Many ...

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has made clear he is manifestly determined to make America even more dominant in the Western Hemisphere.