Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...
During the Great Depression, the U.S. government built 2.3 million outhouses in rural America. They earned several nicknames, including the Roosevelt Outhouse,...
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...