In 1895, hundreds of ministers and church leaders came to New Haven for a conference of the Christian Worker’s Association. Little did...
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
William “Boss” Tweed, notorious New York politician, built the Americus Club in Greenwich, Conn., as a summer retreat. From the 1850s to...
In 1941, the most famous black man in the world moved with his wife and son to a 12-room Colonial house in...
On Feb. 10, 1945, Jackie and Rachel Robinson got married in a big church wedding in Los Angeles. Two weeks later they...
Before he wrote Love Story in 1968, Professor Erich Segal was a star on Yale’s campus. Not because he taught ancient Greek...