Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett started the first scandal in Greenwich, Conn., over – what else? – infidelity and real estate. The...
Jubilee Jim Fisk liked to live large – too large for his own good. He rose from humble beginnings in Vermont to...
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
There was no love lost between Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Hamilton famously castigated Adams in a pamphlet published in 1800 entitled,...
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...
The New England Divorce Reform League sprang up in the late 1800s in response to a divorce crisis in the country. The...