The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day. At night they...
To make a claim for the oldest houses in New England inevitably invites controversy. The region has plenty of very old houses,...
From 1967 to 1979, Puerto Rican riots broke out in New England cities from Waterbury, Conn., to Worcester, Mass. Outsiders didn’t understand...
In 1931, 44-year-old Rose Wilder Lane saw a manuscript of a book called Pioneer Girl. It told the story of a homesteader...
When First Lady Jackie Kennedy visited England in 1961, society photographer Cecil Beaton met her at a dinner party. In his journal...
When Martin Luther King, Jr., arrived in Boston in the fall of 1951, the word ‘freedom’ was very much in the air....