For half her life, Margarett Sargent struggled against the strictures and demands of her Boston Brahmin upbringing. Then for the other half,...
Lusitania survivor Theodate Pope was given up for dead when rescuers pulled her inert body from the Irish Sea with boat hooks....
The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day. At night they...
Jacqueline Bouvier was renowned for her poise and style as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. But she had floundered through her adolescence, uncertain...
The educational reformer who founded Miss Porter’s School in 1843 could not have imagined the fame, fortune, scandal and accomplishment her students...