Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...
During the Great Depression, the U.S. government built 2.3 million outhouses in rural America. They earned several nicknames, including the Roosevelt Outhouse,...
Charles Ives never forgot the sights and sounds of the village cornet band marching to the cemetery in Danbury, Conn., on Decoration...
The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
When Isador Lubin walked out of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 1950, he must have been...
The New Deal put tens of millions of people to work and changed the landscape in every New England city and town....