If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
Native-American slavery began almost as soon as English colonists arrived in Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay. The earliest records date...
On the night of Nov. 14, 1917, 63-year-old Mrs. John Winters Brannan wrapped herself in her heavy sealskin coat to protect herself...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most Armenians immigrated to New England for one horrific reason: genocide. Long a persecuted...