In 1849, Samuel Merritt was making a name for himself as a physician in Plymouth, Mass. Merritt, originally from Harpswell, Maine, completed...
There was only one kind of murder in Massachusetts when the sensational Parkman-Webster case caught the world’s attention in 1850: The kind...
Rufus Choate first used the sleepwalking defense successfully in a sensational 19th-century trial for a man accused of murdering a prostitute. A...
John Quincy Adams collapsed on the floor of the House of Representatives on Feb. 23, 1848 and died two days later. After...
In 1886, a professor named C.H. Hitchcock urged travelers to hurry up and see The Old Man of the Mountain because he...
The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June...