In the history of the United States, only 120 people have served on the Supreme Court. Some suffered from mental illness. Henry...
One year before Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought the United States would never enter World War II. They might have thought otherwise...
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
With friends like Richard Cutts, James Madison didn’t need enemies. Though Cutts was the rare New Englander who supported Mr. Madison’s War,...
Three Portsmouth fires, all at Christmas, destroyed 500 buildings within a decade in the early 19th century. Miraculously, no one died in...