Lewis Allen

Blues? Oh, it ain't nothing but pleasure. There's Chic Street Man — a thin dude with a high, reedy, shocking tenor and a guitar like a belligerent snake on the end of his arm. There's "Mississippi" Charles Bevel, long a star on the Cleveland blues...

It was the beginning of a decade of Prohibition and apparent prosperity: a time of jazz bands and petting parties, high-stepping flappers and college boys with hip flasks. On Long Island, there were rumrunners and dealers in bathtub gin, gaudy parties on...

Charles A. Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic marked only a small step in the march of human civilization. But 75 years later, the romance of the lonely journey and his great popularity in the ensuing decade still loom large in the annals of...

Kathleen Shilkret guessed her five-bedroom Linda Vista house, with its roomy lot and inviting backyard, was worth around $400,000. By one estimate, she was $300,000 on the low side. By another, she was $50,000 too high. To verify her estimate,...