James Nevius

As some readers know, I'm beginning research for a new book, which is going to branch out beyond New York City to other locales and time...

In 2014, I had a number of pieces published by Curbed NY, the city's leading online source for real estate journalism. In case you misse...

Are you watching The Roosevelts: An Intimate History   on PBS? In typical Ken Burns style, it is both fascinating and dense and I find that ...

Over at the Inside the Apple blog today, I write about Thomas Edison and the first wax cylinder phonograph . My first record player was t...

Advice I still use -- and teach -- to this day: “So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhaust...

A lot of virtual (and real) ink has been spilled over the question of whether or not it's a good idea for Google to digitize all the w...

Where would we be without Thomas Edison? The light bulb, the record player, the movie projector -- just to name three. Well, here's ...