Of the thousands of people who go in and out of Boston’s Back Bay commuter rail station every day, how many pass...
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
The Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty site discovery by Jeff Craig has been welcomed by historians and Thoreau enthusiasts alike, for little was known about...
In 1972, undergraduates at the Yale Daily News published The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, an entertaining but blatantly sexist description of...
A daughter of the Puritans led two lives. One, a happy ordinary life of a New England girl filled with school, friends,...
Captain John Hull made frequent trips between America and England as early as the 1680s. He ran a profitable line of ships...