In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
Sometime before the Civil War, Henry David Thoreau and his friend were hiking along the outer edge of Cape Cod when they...
During the long struggle to abolish slavery in America, Edward Fitch did not hold political office. Nor did he serve as an...
Before the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and...
During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some...