The Saturday Evening Post

In 1912, Casimir Funk, the father of vitamin therapy, advanced the revolutionary idea that certain diseases, like beriberi, could be cured and prevented by curious substances found in foods — what he dubbed vital amines. The discovery was a major ach

“When a librarian friend urged me to write about the Karpeles Manuscript Libraries (“History at Your Fingertips,” page 50), I was dubious — an article on libraries?” says Maurizi, who did a little research and discovered his friend was on to somethin

Australian Wolverine star Hugh Jackman disappears into the meaty role of Gary Hart, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee and a philanderer of the first magnitude who famously dared reporters asking about his womanizing to follow him around — and

Reba McEntire fans are like her worldwide family, and they share her pride when she garners another accolade. The latest is the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Career Maker Award, and no one but Reba seems surprised that she’s about to be handed a

You will perhaps have difficulty understanding why I conceived the idea of making 20 hard-candy topiary trees and 20 figgy puddings in the first place. The heart of it is that although I am frail, lazy, and unsuited to doing anything except what I am

Post readers of the 1880s would have been familiar with this woman’s face. Lydia Pinkham was nationally renowned as the creator of one of the most trusted of all patent medicines. Born in 1819, Pinkham was a Massachusetts homemaker who treated her