History in the Raw (The bare facts of history that you don't get to read very often)

My name is Jack Stanley, I have studied history for many years. This blog is about history in a more raw view, not over done. I often use original materials to bring a historic event or story to life or an interview I may have done with the person mentioned. If you cook a vegetable too long it loses much. The same can be said of many histories. They are the history of the history written before it. Over done history. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE RAW. Comments send to phonograph78@hotmail.com

History in the Raw (The bare facts of history that you don't get to read very often)

The Hotel Knickerbocker on Broadway and 42nd Street.

Remembering my friend Ray Stone on the 65th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima

Postage Currency from the Civil War 1862-1863 . All produced in New York City

The other President that was buried in NYC. James Monroe (1758-1831) 5th President of the United States. Removed from NYC's Marble Cemetery in 1858

Original menu for dining in New York's Greenwich Village hot spot ..The Pepper Pot 1929

Scotch, wine, gin, cider and moonshine and the White House

The general Slocum disaster June 15, 1904...One of the worst shipping disasters in history..It was the worst disaster in NYC's history till 9/11.

A big rally for the union and against the south in late April of 1861 . In Union Square in New York City