Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the United States became independent in 1776, Texas was far from the scene. However, one of the key figures of that era, ...

Bache, one of the grand old names in Wall Street history, is making a comeback of sorts as insurance giant Prudential rebrands its global commodities business. Long banished to the dusty archives of ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, ...

Jules Semon Bache, broker and bon vivant, laid away his millions so thriftily that when he died last fortnight (TIME, April 3), U.S. art lovers found themselves beneficiaries of a superb art ...

Delivered, August 6, 1868, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, by BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, President of the Association. THIS is a very interesting biographical sketch of ...