Stephen Moylan had a mostly distinguished career in the American Revolution. But it wasn’t his sword that kept him in the history...
One rainy day in the autumn of 1875, a writer named A.A. Smith met Lady Blanche Murphy, the daughter of an earl,...
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
Among his many accomplishments, which include founding Quebec City and mapping New France, Samuel de Champlain started a war. Born into a...
In the winter of 1755, two Marshfield, Mass., selectmen knocked on the door of the Michel family, seven Acadian exiles. They brought...
In April of 1944, Stanislaus Orlemanski, a priest from Springfield, Mass., was called on to travel to Russia to square off with...