There’s a lot more to the Trapp Family Singers than you’ll find in The Sound of Music, one of the most beloved...
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
A daughter of the Puritans led two lives. One, a happy ordinary life of a New England girl filled with school, friends,...
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
Language being an ever-evolving thing, colonial insults of 1700 might be something quite different in 2020. So a prig of yesteryear is...
In 1871, a whaling disaster in the Arctic hastened the end of the U.S. whaling industry as ice shipwrecked 33 whale ships....