Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...
Robert Todd Lincoln burned most of his papers and correspondence before he died. Most, but not all. He saved a collection of...
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
Practically any place in New England could become a fictional setting, given the region’s strong literary tradition and distinctive landscape. Good writers...
In 1788 Pierre de Sales Laterrière traveled from Canada to Massachusetts to study medicine. Born around 1743, he had been a practicing...
The historical markers along the Boston Post Road are many, but their history is often fake. Since 1673, post riders have ridden...