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At the outset of the Civil War, Capt. Charles Russell Lowell thought a benefit of being an officer was that he didn’t...
More than fifty years after their demise, Scollay Square and the Crawford House have taken on a mystique all their own. As...
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
When the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they brought with them two dogs described as a spaniel and a mastiff....
There’s more to being a Boston Brahmin than simply having an early Puritan ancestor, graduating from Harvard and living on Beacon Hill....