In the days leading up to March 17, 1776, Massachusetts was on edge. British troops, under siege for nearly a year, prepared...
On a June night in 1777, Gen. Alexander Scammell poured out his heart in a letter to Abigail Bishop of Mistic, Mass....
Elizabeth Ellet recorded the lives of the women of the American Revolution – and meddled in the life of Edgar Allan Poe....
Many of John Adams’ best-known quotations came from letters he wrote to his wife Abigail. His sons’ education was very much on...
Between 1776 and 1779, food shortages caused more than 30 food riots in the American colonies. Angry men and women accosted merchants...
In 1788, a young Boston heiress named Fanny Apthorp killed herself after giving birth to her powerful brother-in-law’s child. She left a...