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The marriage of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier has been sold to the American public as the great love story of the twentieth century, a golden fairy tale played out across a thousand days of the White House. It was, in fact, a far more complicated arrangement, a union bound together by ambition, faith, … Read more

In the early nineteenth century, a man who signed on with a fur trapping brigade could expect to live about seven years. The Rocky Mountain West demanded everything a body had: hostile tribes, grizzlies, extremes of weather, and terrain that offered no mercy. Yet some men not only survived but carved names into the frontier … Read more

In March 2024, a worn cardboard box arrived at the Boston Historical Society, part of the estate of a deceased collector. Among its seventeen items, curator Sarah Mitchell found an unremarkable 1892 Victorian family portrait. J. Morrison Studio, Boston, 1892, read the embossed lettering. Five figures stared rigidly at the camera: a bearded man in … Read more

Nikdy by mě nenapadlo, že nemocniční bufet poznám líp než vlastní kuchyni. Po třech týdnech života mezi čekárnami a Jakeovým lůžkem se ze studených dlaždic, bzučících automatů a zatuchlé kávy stal můj domov. Toho rána byly zářivky obzvlášť nesnesitelné. Oči mě pálily po další probdělé noci, kdy jsem držela Jakea za ruku a poslouchala pravidelné … Read more

La festa di lancio della nuova attività di interior design di Vanessa era chiassosa, piena di gente che parlava solo per slogan e misurava il successo in base al codice postale. Io me ne stavo in fondo alla sala affittata, con un bicchiere d’acqua frizzante in mano, a osservare la folla. Mi chiamo Colette Ramsay. … Read more

Lillian Warren Price was not born to the world she would one day enter. She arrived in 1854 in Troy, New York, a manufacturing town on the Hudson known for iron foundries and detachable collars, a place that made useful things. It was not a place that produced duchesses. Her father, Cicero Price, was a … Read more

Sophias Stimme schwang durch den privaten Speisesaal, als wäre sie auf einer Bühne geboren worden. „Amalia, Liebling, du kannst nicht ewig warten. Deine Eizellen laufen dir sprichwörtlich davon. Vielleicht solltest du ein paar einfrieren lassen. Ich kenne eine gute Klinik. “ Ich spürte, wie Mama am Kopfende des Tisches nach Papas Hand griff. Vierzig Verwandte … Read more

In the archdiocesan records of Boston, there is a small index card, written in a mother’s hand, that catalogs the childhood of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, dental work, shoe size. No affection listed. The card belonged to Rose Kennedy, a woman the American public was once told was the most devoted … Read more

By 1781, Elizabeth Freeman found herself in an extraordinary position. Enslaved for nearly thirty years in the household of Colonel John Ashley of Sheffield, Massachusetts, she could not read or write. Yet she had heard the words of the Massachusetts Constitution, adopted just the year before, declaring that all people are born free and equal. … Read more

A photograph from the summer of 1953, somewhere on the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, shows both women. Jacqueline Bouvier, not yet married into the Kennedy family, stands at the edge of a group she had not yet been absorbed into. Ethel Skakel Kennedy, already three years into her marriage to Robert Kennedy and already … Read more