On March 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott voted with 19 other women for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. The...
In November 1852, newspapers in Pennsylvania gave over 650 words to assailing the flaws of the New Englander. In a wide-ranging screed...
In the late 19th century, women known as antis began to organize against women who wanted the right to vote. The antis...
Martin Luther King spent plenty of time in New England, and not just giving speeches about civil rights. He worked in Connecticut...
Henry Blackwell fell in love at first sight. Lucy Stone, the mild- looking but fire-breathing women’s rights advocate, mesmerized the young man....
The American Revolution probably wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the Revolutionary taverns where patriots and Loyalists gathered to talk...
In the early days of the fight for women’s voting rights, Connecticut’s Glastonbury cows were the stars of the show. In June...
Peace after World War II was shattered in Greenwich, Conn., when a United Nations site committee started looking at land for its...
Angela Puleo was one of thousands of Italian immigrants stigmatized as enemy aliens by the government during World War II . Two...
Marie Antoinette and Maine hardly trip off the tongue together, but an intrepid ship captain from the state nearly saved the life...