Adrian is known as the man who designed the most famous shoes on the planet, but he also deserves credit for padding...
Isabella Stewart Gardner is known to most for Fenway Court, her palatial Boston museum from which $500 million in art was stolen...
The rise of female impersonator Julian Eltinge was a twist on the old story of instant stardom, in which an agent/producer spots...
Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
An impoverished Prussian nobleman named Baron Friedrich von Steuben showed up in Valley Forge on Feb. 23, 1778, and taught the Continental...
Charlotte Cushman, considered the greatest actress in America during the mid-19th century, played both male and female dramatic roles. She did it...