Sunday Magazine

Way of the Counterfeiter Grows More Thorny

The Latest Trick Is Raising the Face Value of Bills, but They Are Crude and Do Not Travel Far

Oct 5 • 

Jesse Rifkin

September 2025

Army's First Eaglet Talks of Flying

Foulois, Once Our Whole Air Force, Recounts the Stirring Early Days With Wright and Some Later History

Sep 28 • 

Jesse Rifkin

Fight Promotion is Big Business Now

Pugilism Was a Simpler Profession When Dan Stuart Arranged the Fitzsimmons-Maher Battle

Sep 21 • 

Jesse Rifkin

Our Moaning Saxophone is Now Called Immoral

Whether or Not It Be Guilty, at Least It Has Achieved a New Distinction and Become a Musical Issue

Sep 14 • 

Jesse Rifkin

Von Hindenburg Carries On

Stanch Old Field Marshal, in His First Four Months as President, Has Imparted Some of His Calmness to Germany's People and Politicians – His Official…

Sep 7 • 

Jesse Rifkin

August 2025

The Charleston Prances Into Favor

New Dance Comes on Swiftly, but It Has Not Yet Reached the Ballrooms of New York

Aug 31 • 

Jesse Rifkin

Paths of French War Brides Are Rocky

Half a decade after World War I, how were marriages of American soldiers and European (mostly French) wives faring?

Aug 3 • 

Jesse Rifkin

July 2025

The Sociable Oyster is Losing Caste

Prohibition didn’t just ban alcohol, it also decreased the popularity of certain foods often eaten alongside alcohol, such as oysters.

Jul 27 • 

Jesse Rifkin

Mayflower is Our Second White House

For about 25 years, the U.S.

Jul 13 • 

Jesse Rifkin

The Evolution Arena at Dayton

July 1925’s Scopes Monkey Trial, about whether evolution could be taught in Tennessee public schools, brought massive attention upon the small town of…

Jul 6 • 

Jesse Rifkin

June 2025

Humane Amateur Night Uses Hooks No More

The practice of yanking awful performers off a stage using a hook from behind the curtain had disappeared by 1925, a New York Times Magazine article…

Jun 29 • 

Jesse Rifkin

Two-Dollar Bill Still the Treasury’s Jinx

Last month, the U.S.

Jun 22 • 

Jesse Rifkin