Massachusetts
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3.1K1The Many Loves of Margarett Sargent McKean, Mad Brahmin Artist
For half her life, Margarett Sargent struggled against the strictures and demands of her Boston Brahmin upbringing. Then for the other half,...
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4.0K1Kendall Square Loses the Space Race to Houston
One of the great what-ifs in the history of metropolitan Boston is: What if NASA had moved to Kendall Square in Cambridge,...
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4.3K2Saving the Historic Gas Station
Once New Englanders decided to save the historic Old South Meeting House in 1876, they began to preserve others kinds of historic...
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2.9K1The House Servant’s Directory
Robert Roberts, butler to the rich and famous, wrote a popular house servants’ directory that defined polite society before the Civil War....
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4.4K5Robert Roberts Tells All – About How To Be a House Servant in 1827
Robert Roberts moved comfortably among Boston’s Brahmin class, not as an equal but as an African-American servant. He was good at his...
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4.9KThe Curse of Humphrey Atherton
Humphrey Atherton had far more power and influence than his victims, Quakers he persecuted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s....
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3.8KThe Rescue of the USS Constitution, ‘Old Ironsides’
On April 3, 1814, the United States almost lost its most famous ship: the U.S.S. Constitution. But thanks to the quick thinking...
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3.2KJohn Aylett, The Royalist Adventurer Who Owned a Boston Tavern
Capt. John Aylett, an English nobleman, launched his career on the high seas in Boston after he fled his native country to...
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12.0K2Discovery of Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site at Flints Pond Is Likely
An amateur archaeologist, Jeff Craig, may have discovered the lost Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site. The 19th-century shanty helped inspire Thoreau to build his...
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8.3KMay Alcott, Forever Shadowed by Older Sister Louisa
May Alcott, the real Amy March in Louisa May Alcott’s semi-autobiographical novel Little Women, struggled all her life to win success as...
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