“This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,� by Drew Gilpin Faust, has won the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize....

The only problem with New York City’s birth date, 1625, is that the year has hardly any historical significance. Some historians hope to correct the record....

Dick Eastman is reporting that the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Building is being advertised as “for sale” at only $33,000,000. What a deal! It should also be noted that the ad includes the notion that it could be used as “even a single-family home.” Inte...