Stephen Moylan had a mostly distinguished career in the American Revolution. But it wasn’t his sword that kept him in the history...
You just might be living near a John La Farge window if you live in Rhode Island or Massachusetts, and in any...
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Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
The creative spirit that moves people to sculpt and paint also tends to inspire an interesting artist home. Lucrative commissions in the...
Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...