In the 1930s, Ida Tarbell sat down at her mahogany desk in the sunny library of her Easton, Conn., farmhouse. She wrote...
Just six years after the Great Hurricane of 1938 devastated New England, a storm of similar magnitude headed north from the Caribbean:...
On Feb. 6, 1821, young Capt. Nathaniel Palmer and the four-man crew aboard the Hero were becalmed in uncharted waters off Antarctica,...
The sack of Lunenburg in 1782 was a spectacular example of the importance of America’s pirate navy to the Revolutionary War. During...