On Jan. 10, 1967, Ed Brooke was sworn in as the junior senator from Massachusetts, the first African-American to win popular election...
Gen. Israel Putnam famously left his plow in the ground when he heard about the Battles of Lexington and Concord and immediately...
Dr. Benjamin Spock was a card-carrying member of the Eastern Establishment until a presidential remark set him on a different path. It...
If it weren’t for Benning Wentworth, Vermont probably wouldn’t exist. Wentworth was the Colony of New Hampshire’s first governor, and on Jan....
Exactly no one was surprised on Jan. 2, 1960, when Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy stood under the crystal chandeliers in the red-carpeted...
Caleb Cushing famously brought a weathervane shaped like an arrow as a gift to the American consul in China in 1844. Cushing,...