Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidential yacht, the USS Potomac, included a smokestack secretly converted into an elevator so he could move between decks in his wheelchair.

As the children returned to school last week, I found myself thinking about my own education and the many different forms it has taken throughout

This early 20th-century photograph shows the Hooper Island Light Station, standing about three miles west of Hooper Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Built in 1902,

This August Sturgeon Moon brought with it a powerful, deep partial lunar eclipse, obscuring 96% of the moon. I wasn’t able to witness the eclipse,

This postcard shows the Maryland State Hospital at Cambridge looking almost resort-like from the water, with matching brick buildings, a tall smokestack, and a few

Shortly after our move from Hawaii to Virginia, my eldest daughter, Jenny, and I went on her second-grade class field trip. It was a beautiful

Shortly after our move from Hawaii to Virginia, my eldest daughter, Jenny, and I went on her second-grade class field trip. It was a beautiful

This Library of Congress photograph captures a defining part of Cambridge’s industrial past: trucks arriving directly from the fields to unload tomatoes at the Phillips

The morning-shift nurse wrote her name and the date on the dry-erase board in my husband’s room at Johns Hopkins almost a year ago. I