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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, I recall my English teacher talking about how she was reading William Peter Blatty’s novel “The Exorcist” on a long car trip home: While her husband drove, she sat in the front passenger’s seat with a flashlight, so completely caught up in the book that [...]

Charismatic, inquisitive, intelligent, enthusiastic – did I neglect to say telegenic? – Elyse Luray, like her three fellow investigators on the PBS series “History Detectives", brings to the field of history all the energy, relevance and wonder that somehow got bled out of it in too many junior high and high school classrooms.
You can tell [...]

At 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 3, 1885, a mob of several hundred men marched through Tacoma’s Chinese community, rousting its last 200 residents and herding them nine miles south to the Lake View train station, in what is now Lakewood, as policemen and sheriff’s deputies looked on. After spending a cold, rainy night, many in [...]

Thanks to you, AmeriCollector.com now has a loyal readership, and it's growing daily: We had over 18,000 visitors last week, which is hugely gratifying.
At a juncture like this, I can’t help but think it’s the ideal time to reaffirm our mission: to provide a fun, interesting, informative venue of interest to collectors in a wide [...]

What is it that makes the Pacific Northwest a little wild, a little woolly – and sometimes downright creepy?
The first time I ever visited Seattle, in 1992, I went into a T-shirt shop to buy souvenirs and struck up a conversation with the salesgirl and another customer, both Puget Sound natives. Being from out of [...]

If eBay is any indicator, the collectibles market is heating up again: I’ve noted a lot of interesting stuff and some vigorous bidding of late, a sure sign that the economy is improving. And while a lot of folks aren’t out of the woods yet, financially – many are downsizing their collections because they were [...]

If you’re not already on the “Antiques Roadshow” e-mail list – or have never checked out Antiques Roadshow Online on the PBS Web site (www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow) – you’re missing out on lots of great information: profiles of the appraisers and their past appraisals; recommended reading by subject; even a teacher’s guide with featured objects to get [...]