Just one look at a photograph of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain was done for. Love at first sight is how he...
When a judge sentenced two Italian anarchists named Sacco and Vanzetti to die for a crime they said they didn’t commit, an...
From 1845 to 1855, famine ships brought 2 million Irish emigrants to ports in Boston, New York and Canada. They were fleeing...
Election Cake was a highlight of the Puritan celebration of Election Day, one of the important colonial holidays along with Commencement Day...
Face it, people who have a lot of money like to be around other people who have a lot of money. So...
Jennie Cramer and her mother Christina had an awful fight on Thursday, August 4, 1881. Jennie and her friend Blanche Douglass had...