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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of ...

During the 19th century, a bustling pipe-making district at the intersection of four Montreal neighborhoods catered to Canadians in need of a tobacco fix. Among the manufacturers operating in the area ...

The great thing about tobacco pipes, according to Julie Schablitsky, is that they are hard to not find. They were ubiquitous in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries—to the point, she says, that ...

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 ...

A tobacco pipe found along Generals Highway could connect people with African ancestors who were enslaved in Anne Arundel. Archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway ...

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 ...