John Richardson Latimer was the grandson of American milling and shipping businessman James Latimer, who had emigrated from Ireland in 1736. John’s uncle George Latimer ran a counting house in Philadelphia, and it was here that John received his early training. George arranged for him to e ...
Forbes House Museum welcomed a very special guest on Monday, as the Museum's founder, Dr. H. A. Crosby Forbes made a visit to historic site. Crosby joined the staff for tea and lunch, spending some time viewing the galleries and recounting his family history as well as his long museum career. ...
Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. https://www.americanheritage.com/fair-honorable-and-legitimate-trade The opium trade is remembered as a British outrage: English merchants, protected by English bayonets, turning China into a nation of addicts. But Americans got rich from this traffic—among them, ...
COVID , guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year. Within eighty-two days of arriving in Pittsburgh to continue his education in the summer of 2021, ...
Adam You from DENVER "说到丹佛的中国城,其实从1890年后,大多数的商家都已经迁到现在棒球场旁边,20街和21街,Blake和Market那一块,但由于城里的华人越来越少,这里到1940年就拆了,再加上这一带随着棒球场建成在90年代迅速开发,现在已经基本上完全想象不到当年的样子。上个世纪初期20年代附近这里黄赌毒什么都有,所 ...