History of New Year’s Eve In Times Square

Manhattan’s Times Square is now packed with people almost every day of the year. The pedestrian plaza, created in 2009 but permanently and…

From Bacchanal to Babies- Shifting the Focus of Christmas

This is a great article about how a group of upper-class New Yorkers helped turned the focus of America’s Christmas celebrations towards kids– and…

Here’s my first video in the Scandalous Washington series. They’re based on talks I created and give in D.C. The nation’s capital is almost as…

Considering that the Folger Shakespeare Theatre combines two of my favorite things- history and theater- I can’t believe that it took me…