Alice Cogswell was a precocious little girl from Hartford, Conn. She was just nine years old in 1814 when she met her...
As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their shops and laundries for the day. Breaking through...
On this date in 1935, Nellie T. Hendrick was preparing to step down from the post she held for 20 years as...
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most loathsome blight the state ever produced. So perhaps...