In 1918, America was at war. The country needed to devote all of its industrial might to victory in Europe. A war...
New England’s Gun Valley began with George Washington, who in 1777 scouted the site on an old Puritan muster ground in Springfield,...
John Allen Heany managed to fool some of the people with his tungsten light bulb, but he couldn’t fool General Electric. In...
Italian immigrants put their stamp on New England as indelibly as any Puritan. New England, in fact, is the most Italian region...
In 1942 Deane Keller, a pudgy, bespectacled, 42-year-old Yale professor, ached to fight the Germans in Europe. He tried to enlist in...
When Eleanor Estes was growing up in West Haven, Conn., her classmates mocked a Polish girl who wore the same hand-me-down dress...