In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans grew obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with the dead. The movement, which began in 1848...
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
In 1954, University of New Hampshire president Robert Chandler had a problem faculty member, Professor Kenneth Yates. He was ‘undoubtedly a brilliant...