O Little Town of Bethlehem was written by a parish priest considered to be the greatest preacher of his day. His name...
If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
The recent discovery of the Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site by Jeff Craig is revealing exciting new details as the archaeological evaluation of this...
Ezekiel Cheever taught Latin, writing and arithmetic to the children of New England’s first Puritans for 70 years. He taught in New...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a skilled propagandist who sometimes creatively remembered events in order to make a point. Or, to put it...
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...