The much-loved Christmas song Sleigh Ride was written during an August heat wave for the Boston Pops Orchestra. It didn't even have...
Elbridge Gerry was the first person allowed to walk over the new West Boston Bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge 220 years ago...
New England candy ruled the American confectionery industry from colonial times right through the mid 1900s. Many candy makers made their sugary...
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...
When Timothy Leary famously turned on, tuned in, and dropped out, he took a lot of people with him. Leary, the LSD guru...
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
With the approach of July 4th, the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence is hard to ignore. As an historical...
The Polaroid Corporation was born in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922 when a teacher showed a 13-year-old how to take...
Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women -- including poor...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....