When the U.S. government began printing paper money in 1861, it used green ink to prevent counterfeiters from reproducing the bills with the period’s black-and-white photography. In 1909, when ...

Welcome to the Esquire Endorsement. Heavily researched. Thoroughly vetted. These picks are the best way to spend your hard-earned cash. When I moved into my first apartment, I wanted my room to carry ...

Apart from a desk, a decent chair and a computer to work on, the home workspace doesn’t need much else, but there are few stranger sights than a desk without a lamp. Romanticized from their ...

I still think of this reading room. It was on the bottom floor of the campus library at my New England liberal arts college, a lovingly faithful replica of the school's original reading room.