In 1874, Jesse Pomeroy was sentenced to death for murdering at least two children. For the next 50 years America was fascinated...
Life on a ship in the 1850s was neither democratic nor easy. The captain made the rules and punishments were fierce. In...
Shortly after the end of the Revolutionary war the new American country needed currency, and Stephen Burroughs was happy to oblige. He...
The militia muster of 1787 in Boston would have been a celebration to be sure. Colonial musters were popular events for the...
Exorbitancy of the tongue, common railing . . . call it what you like. Early New England colonists had a problem: The...
In 1879, Leroy Shear of St. Albans, Vermont, an honest, mild and respected banker, traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with President...