As I sat down at my desk this morning to write this article, something caused me to take stock of everything on it. A computer, of course, reading glasses, assorted labels and stationery, a couple of ...

Some of Keens Steakhouse's signed pipes sitting on a table. - keenssteakhouse / Instagram Keens Steakhouse, a restaurant in Manhattan that was opened in 1885, is not quite the oldest steakhouse in New ...

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. The English, looking to colonize and find riches in the New World, took up the habit, found it ...

Here it is—everything you ever wanted to know about tobacco, from Amerindian prehistory right up to the Clinton/Lewinsky cigar tryst. As Gately traces the role of tobacco in history's major military ...

A collection of tobacco pipes that is said to have once belonged to Albert Einstein has been put up for auction, and bidders have already driven the price to more than $20,000. The historic collection ...

Since the inception of the United States, scores of presidents have used some form of tobacco. Most preferred cigars, while others favored pipes, chewing tobacco and less frequently cigarettes. Cigars ...

With cultivation dating back thousands of years, tobacco was an important crop for various Native American nations in North America. Evidence that the Maya in what is now Mexico grew tobacco dates to ...

Keens Steakhouse, a restaurant in Manhattan that was opened in 1885, is not quite the oldest steakhouse in New York City, but it still feels like an establishment flung out of time and space. It may ...