Archive: January 2025 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Josh Levy; (Year) 2025; (Month) January

Black and white photograph of Louise Leahy and Helen Griffin Swift drinking tea

Before the Admiral’s House Lost Its Furniture

January 23, 2025

A 1937 tea party held at the home of the chief of naval operations, today’s official vice presidential residence, reveals a mansion that was once a showcase of women’s hidden political influence within the nation’s military elite.

Posted in: War and Society, Women's & Gender History

Arizona’s Hassayampa River as it passes beneath a highway bridge, looking modern and not too mysterious. Clayton B. Fraser, Hassayampa Bridge at old U.S. Highway 80, Arlington, Arizona, circa 1993.

Of Note: Hassayampers Unite!

January 2, 2025

Posted by: Josh Levy

In June 1910, a few days after President William Howard Taft signed legislation allowing the Arizona and New Mexico territories to move toward statehood, a strange telegram arrived in the White House, which reveals the story of a river that once buzzed with legend.

Posted in: Of Note, Politics

Refined by: (Author) Josh Levy; (Year) 2025; (Month) January