For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government – a borough, of which nine currently survive....
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionaries imprisoned in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death –...
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of the Revolutionary era. They also resulted in the...
P.T. Barnum’s cousin wanted to go down in history as a statesman and an industrialist, but he could never escape his nickname:...