There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun — well,...
James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
Amos Doolittle didn’t let a little political disagreement get in the way of creating the most important images of the American Revolution....
New Haven’s Philo Bennett probably thought he was doing William Jennings Bryan a good turn when he left him $50,000 in his...
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground. The French and British were at loggerheads, and the British Navy, with the support...
Money in the 1600s was a volatile topic in the colonies. In a financial crisis, a currency shortage would freeze up the...