In 1742 Tom Bell was probably the most well known product of Harvard College in America. Everyone knew how he dressed, what...
Like many vigilante groups in New England, the Society of Mutual Aid Against Thieves came about for good reason in Worcester, Mass.,...
On Nov. 5, 1872, Benjamin Briggs of Wareham, Mass., piloted the brigantine Mary Celeste to sea loaded with cargo for Genoa. It...
Shortly after the end of the Revolutionary war the new American country needed currency, and Stephen Burroughs was happy to oblige. He...
Few criminals built a record as long or as celebrated as Henry Tufts. While history of the colonial era tends to focus...
Mysterious Dave Mather came to be a lawman in the old West pretty much by chance. The taciturn son of a Connecticut...