On Jan. 10, 1941, Hartford State’s Attorney Hugh Alcorn attended the opening night of the Broadway play, Arsenic and Old Lace. The...
Throughout the first six months of 1776, the soldiers of the American Northern Army in Canada fought against two deadly enemies: smallpox...
On the early morning of May 26, 1954, fighter jets started to catapult into the air from the USS Bennington (CVA 20),...
On the night of Nov. 14, 1917, 63-year-old Mrs. John Winters Brannan wrapped herself in her heavy sealskin coat to protect herself...
In 1835, the Baptists in Nashua, N.H., grew in numbers so fast they began planning a second church in the city. The...
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She kept her now-famous diary...