The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
In early fall of 1713, reports began making the rounds that measles was spreading in New England. Puritan minister Cotton Mather first...
On April 14, 1721, Judge Samuel Sewall was handed a letter from a Capt. Tuthill, informing him that the ship Swan Anna...
Nora Saltonstall got a chance to visit her brother on the Western Front during World War I. She, for nearly a year...