Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
In December 1771, New Hampshire’s Executive Council and General Court decided they’d had enough of Christmas merry-making. They, along with Governor John...
During those confusing, intense first weeks of the American Revolution, Prudence Cummings Wright organized a ladies group — to capture Loyalist spies...
Not all courageous heroes receive their due on Veterans or any other day. So many sacrifices have gone unheralded, so many men...
Joseph Warren, say some today, would have been the first president of the United States had he not been killed at the Battle...
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...