The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
Colonial New England had no shortage of illness and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering with diseases...
Noah Webster might never have published his blue-backed speller if it weren’t for setbacks in his career and disappointment in love. In...
During the terrible depression that followed the Panic of 1893, a transplanted Maine shoemaker came up with a widely ridiculed idea to...
In the annals of Rhode Island food traditions, the New York System wiener is probably the most misleading. New Yorkers know nothing...