From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
In 1933, a poor Italian-American teenager led the dramatic New Haven garment workers strike that lifted thousands of women into the middle...
The Polaroid Corporation was born in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922 when a teacher showed a 13-year-old how to take...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....
The following is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. Methodist Camp Meetings were key to...
Everyone agrees on one thing about the Methodists and the mill girl: On December 21, 1832, Sarah Cornell was found dead. A...