St. Ann Roman Catholic Church in Woonsocket, R.I., was built from nickels and dimes donated by poor French-Canadian millworkers and their families...
When John Winthrop and other members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony first settled in Boston in 1630, they soon discovered in the...
When George Seldes died in 1995 at the age of 104, a delegation of investigative journalists journeyed to his home in Hartland...
Rose Kennedy didn’t drink and she didn’t smoke. She told people who offered her a drink or a cigarette, “Well, I am just...
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a candidate for something the Puritans abhorred: Catholic sainthood. She was born...
In colonial New England, the new year did not start on January 1. Not because the Puritans didn’t want people to have...