Harry Houdini, the world’s most famous magician, came to Boston in 1924 to expose as a charlatan a popular medium named “Margery.”...
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
Robert Roberts moved comfortably among Boston’s Brahmin class, not as an equal but as an African-American servant. He was good at his...
Louis Brandeis during Hanukkah in 1915 delivered a message to the Zionists of America that described the holiday as a celebration of...
Sylvia Plath called McLean mental hospital the best mental hospital in the United States. U.S. News & World Report did too. Though...