Colonists coming from England had plenty of and informal and slang expressions to call someone evil. Here are ten of them: A...
In 1737, at the age of 31, Boston-born Benjamin Franklin decided to point out the many phrases people used to describe drunkenness....
Isaiah Thomas is best known as a newspapermen and supporter of the American Revolution. But as a printer and publisher he did...
Lying existed in the 1600s, just as it does today. And there were many slang expressions to describe liars and lying. Here...
In the 1600s if someone offered you a Pult in the Munns, you probably didn’t want it. They had lots of expressions...
In 1939, the greatest submarine rescue in history was undertaken off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. This is the second part of...