On January 6, 1873, the city of New Orleans woke to an uneasy calm as three armed groups gathered in the streets. First was the militia called up by the biracial Republican state government to preserve its authority. Second were the armed White supporters of the conservative Democrats, many carrying the same rifles they bore…
Month: February 2026
Nothing is more American than sitting down to a meal with seventy of your favorite wild animals
As soon as the five hundred gown- and tuxedo-clad guests filed into the great hall of Chicago’s Grand Pacific Hotel, they stood face to face with about seventy different kinds of animals that they would soon eat. For the last twenty-eight years, John Drake had served Chicago’s leading citizens an annual game dinner that each…