In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis published an article called “The Right to Privacy” in the Harvard Law Review. They weren't responding to a court ruling or a piece of legislation. They were responding to the gossip pages.Boston's newspapers had started printing details of private social events (weddings, dinner parties, the comings and goings…

In the days after the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed most of San Francisco, the city's banks stayed shut, their vaults too hot to open for weeks.

The hardest part of uncertainty is rarely the waiting.