Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
George Scigliano won the reverence of Boston’s North End for vanquishing the money lenders, criminals and labor bosses who preyed on poor...
Most school children know the story of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, but few know that he went to jail for murder....
With friends like Richard Cutts, James Madison didn’t need enemies. Though Cutts was the rare New Englander who supported Mr. Madison’s War,...
In 1920, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald honeymooned in Westport, Conn., so he could write, she could swim and they could both party...
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun — well,...