Robert Remington looked much younger than his 17 years when he joined the U.S. Army at Yale Field on April 23, 1917,...
Connecticut owes its enormous World War I archive to George Godard, the state librarian during World War I. Godard had hoarding tendencies....
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
New England is full of sites that hosted past presidential visits as the country’s leaders came north in search of votes, campaign...
The summer of 1914 was a flash-point for the Italian immigrant families living in Providence, R.I. Squeezed on one side by an...
Lusitania survivor Theodate Pope was given up for dead when rescuers pulled her inert body from the Irish Sea with boat hooks....
On Christmas Eve and Christmas day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
Once the most famous architect of his day, Ralph Adams Cram designed many churches (mostly Episcopal), schools and libraries in New England....
John Allen Heany managed to fool some of the people with his tungsten light bulb, but he couldn't fool General Electric. In...
The summer White House has been a feature of presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from...