On June 8, 1931, the bruised body of beautiful socialite Starr Faithfull was found on a deserted Long Island beach. She wore...
Mary Hellen had her pick of John Quincy Adams’ three sons. She chose the wrong one. She was Louisa Adams’ niece, the...
The beautiful Ethel Reed blazed like a meteor across Boston’s artistic firmament in the 1890s, but after a broken engagement she all...
New England’s early colonists paid a great deal of attention to death and funerals. Many people attended colonial funerals, and would think...
Franklin Pierce was elected as the 14th and possibly worst president of the United States on Nov. 2, 1852. During his presidency...
Edith Wharton belonged to the old-money, upper-crust New York society to which F. Scott Fitzgerald aspired. Wharton, like the much younger Fitzgerald,...