On April 27, 1788, John Quincy Adams was a 21-year-old Harvard graduate studying law with Theophilus Parsons in Newburyport, Mass. He’d returned home from...
Lucy Larcom went to work as a Lowell mill girl at 11 years old to help support her family. The job was...
John Glover’s Regiment of Marbleheaders accomplished an amazing feat on the night of Dec. 25, 1776. They ferried 2,400 men, plus horses and artillery,...
Just how rowdy was a New England colonial Christmas? It depended on who was celebrating. But it bore little resemblance to Christmas...