On March 5, 1770, Matthew Kilroy shot Samuel Gray to death during the Boston Massacre. Kilroy had fought with Gray earlier, and...
In 1941, the most famous black man in the world moved with his wife and son to a 12-room Colonial house in...
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
Of the thousands of people who go in and out of Boston’s Back Bay commuter rail station every day, how many pass...
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...