Humphrey Atherton had far more power and influence than the Quakers he persecuted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s. At...
An amateur archaeologist, Jeff Craig, may have discovered the lost Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site. The 19th-century shanty helped inspire Thoreau to build his...
He rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. Frederick Douglass didn’t spend a...
The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...