At 3 a.m. on July 4, 1925, 50 couples crowded onto the dance floor of the Pickwick Club in Boston’s Chinatown, kicking...
In 1921, coroners had Edward Searles body exhumed months after his death. Their conclusion, after examination, was that he had not been...
John Quincy Adams swam naked in the Potomac, kept an alligator in the White House and won freedom for Africans who mutinied...
James Otis made taxation without representation a cause of the American Revolution, but when war broke out he had pretty much disappeared...
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...