Putting together the first woman suffrage cook book in 1886 must have been a lot like herding cats for Hattie A. Burr...
On July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman was first published – to widespread shock and awe. Today’s literary classic was 1855’s...
In 1809, a man named William Jarvis sent a flock of Spanish sheep to America and altered the landscape and the economy...
The practice of bundling probably caused New England’s gentry more embarrassment than any other local folk custom. City slickers and the upper...
Libraries might be very different places today were it not for Justin Winsor, who became the head librarian at the Boston Public...
In 1860, wealthy kidnapper Elizabeth Thorndike Rice hid in Derby, Vt., with her son as her abusive ex-husband tried to find them....