In 1839, a young black sailor named James Covey held the key to freedom for 53 Africans who appeared in a Spanish...
Some people believe that the Rough Riders were almost all cowboys from out West. After all, it had earned the nickname “The...
Don Pedro, the handsome, ruthless Spanish pirate, apparently didn’t get the memo in 1832 that piracy was over in the Atlantic Ocean....
James DeWolf died the second richest man in America after accumulating a fortune from buying, selling and – in one case –...
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever built in the state. He’d built...
As Sophia Peabody approached her 30th year, she wrote a letter to her sister saying, “I never intend to have a husband.”...