The American Menu

New York City 1884 Two national political conventions were held in Chicago during the summer of 1884. In June, the Republicans nominat...

Wellesley,  1879 The cover of this 1879 menu from the Wellesley Hotel looks straightforward, except that the small town located a few...

Occupied Japan,  1949-1955     This cover illustration, showing Santa Claus flying through a Japanese gate toward Mount Fuji, represe...

Hanford, Washington 1944 Hanford Engineer Works (1944) Soon after a woman sold me an old Christmas menu online, she wrote to let me k...

Camp David, Maryland 2007 President George W. Bush was anxious to form a good relationship with the newly-chosen British Prime Ministe...

New York City,  1935 In her memoir This Time Together , comedienne Carol Burnett reminisces about the summer of 1959, when the musical...

New York City,  1882 Influential Americans of the Gilded Age were comforted by philosopher Herbert Spencer ’ s  ideas which adapted t...

Denver,  1881 When the Society of Colorado Pioneers gathered for its first reunion in 1881 at the Windsor Hotel in Denver, the menu ...

New York City,  1897   The Café Au Bon Goût on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 30th Street features an enormous buffet that is open 24...

Iowa, New York & Connecticut,  1886-1888 T wo corn cobs were walking along, and the first cob noticed that they were being follow...