Henry Thoreau wouldn’t have been Henry Thoreau without his sisters, Helen and Sophia Thoreau. Or his brother, for that matter. But John...
It’s an interesting photograph: serious-looking men in hats and suits, with a couple of human skulls among them. Taken in 1895, the...
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was fighting the Civil War to preserve the Union, not to free any slaves. Howard had...
Elleanor Eldridge was an African-American woman born free in Rhode Island because her father fought in the American Revolution. During a lifetime...
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
In 1830, Joseph Palmer wore a long, flowing beard, considered such a fashion crime at the time that men attacked him and...