In 1929, a depressed, divorced 51-year-old society matron decided to take up murder as a hobby. Frances Glessner Lee had just closed...
During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
The name “John Hay” pops up frequently in American history, especially during the second half of the 19th century. John Hay was...