All posts tagged "courts"
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19.4KMassachusettsA Multitude of Salem Witch Trials Descendants
If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
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10.6KCrime and ScandalThe Murder of Mary Bean, Pregnant Mill Girl
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
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9.3KMassachusettsBenjamin Roberts Fights To Integrate Massachusetts Schools—and Wins in 1855
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
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9.2KBusiness and LaborNative-American Slavery in New England
Native-American slavery began almost as soon as English colonists arrived in Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay. The earliest records date...
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7.7KConnecticutA Brahmin Suffragist Suffers a Night of Terror in Prison
On the night of Nov. 14, 1917, 63-year-old Mrs. John Winters Brannan wrapped herself in her heavy sealskin coat to protect herself...
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14.6K1MassachusettsHow Armenians Came to America, and What They’ll Never Forget
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most Armenians immigrated to New England for one horrific reason: genocide. It’s something the...
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