The 1900 U.S. Senate election in Vermont pitted Governor William Dillingham against Congressman and General William Grout. As the race got nastier,...
Martin Howard was a prominent Rhode Island politician who might have thought twice about publicly supporting the Stamp Act of 1765. It...
On Aug. 23, 1775, several dozen towns suddenly sprang into existence in the Province of Massachusetts, which then included the Maine frontier....
John Quincy Adams collapsed on the floor of the House of Representatives on Feb. 23, 1848 and died two days later. After...
Frances Perkins was having tea with her friend, Mrs. Gordon Norris, in New York City, on the afternoon of March 25, 1911, when...
If you had to guess who saved the White Mountain forests from destruction, you probably wouldn't come up with a politically ambitious...
A black king of New England, Nero Brewster, introduced a bill to gain his freedom to the General Assembly in 1779. It...