There was no love lost between Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Hamilton famously castigated Adams in a pamphlet published in 1800 entitled,...
George Washington possessed a unique set of qualities that inspired the people of 13 British colonies to create a new country. He...
Mary Gray Bidwell and her husband Barnabas resembled in many ways John and Abigail Adams. Both belonged to the local gentry, and...
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
The stately Boston Athenaeum at 10-1/2 Beacon St. owes its storied existence to William Smith Shaw, the obsessive, sickly, curmudgeonly, hard-drinking nephew...
James Otis made taxation without representation a cause of the American Revolution, but when war broke out he had pretty much disappeared...