On Jan. 26, 1864, a young man from the Pacific Northwest gave a talk to unmarried girls in Lowell, Mass., about a...
Rufus Porter left his mark on early New England homes with stencils on their walls and Scientific American on the coffee table....
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
In 1921, coroners had Edward Searles body exhumed months after his death. Their conclusion, after examination, was that he had not been...
In 1883, Newport cottages had yet to reach their grand peak. But the well-established cottagers at the Rhode Island resort presented many...
R. H. Macy took a long and winding path to becoming the merchant prince of New York City. Early in his journey,...