John Ledyard launched America’s China trade after sailing with Capt. James Cook on a voyage to find the Northwest Passage. Instead, Ledyard...
The early American Republic was a perfect setting for an ambitious man like Joel Barlow. Born in modest circumstances, he achieved the...
The creators of the first ski rope tow in the United States stole the idea from another person. A year later, that...
The Back-to-Africa movement began with a wealthy mixed-race Quaker named Paul Cuffe. He brought African-American Bostonians to a Sierra Leone colony in...
Robert Frost and Elinor White married in December of 1895 in Lawrence, Mass., after one of them finally stopped foot-dragging. The two were...
On every December 16th, it’s hard not to turn your mind back to the year 1773 when the most famous protest of...