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 ...

There’s a reason banker’s lamps have been around for more than a century. They feature a simple design that’s easy to operate and maintain while being remarkably reliable. Over the years, that simple ...

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.