Grover Cleveland

How Thomas Edison Illuminated Modern America

The 1893 Columbian Exposition introduced the United States as an industrial power on the world’s stage.  Americans flocked to Chicago to ride the world’s first Ferris Wheel, to hear Frederick Jackson Turner lecture on his frontier thesis and, perhaps most of all, to see electric light for the first time. As the exposition opened on May […]

A History of Political Sex Scandals, From Grover Cleveland to John Edwards

The World

Nicaragua and Costa Rica battle over border

Global Politics