I visited Paul Vaughn to see his restoration underway on a 1909 Pullman Model 4-40 Gentleman’s Roadster. In keeping with my continuing series of posts on the 1908 Philadelphia to Savannah Race, he had ...

FROM de Tocqueville find Dickens to Mr. Bryce and Max O’Rell, there have been many suggestions as to the best method of studying the American people, as we in the United States modestly call ourselves ...

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Florence La Badie was a famous silent firm star that received a customized York built Pullman Deluxe Coupe in 1916. La Badie’s publicity photo, via Pinterest, is from the height of her career in that ...

The Black workers hired as porters and maids often encountered racism on the job. Black workers were hired to be porters and maids for the Pullman company, and had to cater to passengers’ every whim.

MANCHESTER — The newest addition to Hildene, the historic Lincoln family home, helps tell the story of Robert Todd Lincoln, America’s Gilded Age and the rise of the black middle class, according to ...

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This week, the historic community of Pullman on Chicago's Far South Side is celebrating 10 years of being part of the National Park Service. Its history not only preserved through its architecture and ...