The enduring love story of John and Abigail Adams began with a whimper rather than a bang in 1762. They met in...
Delia Bacon hated William Shakespeare so passionately she lost her mind and her health trying to prove he didn’t write those plays....
Catherine Beecher was the Martha Stewart of her day and, like Martha Stewart, lived in Connecticut (Hartford, not Westport). Harriet Beecher Stowe’s...
There is, in fact, gold in seawater. And that is the kernel of truth upon which two men from Martha’s Vineyard would...
In 1933, a poor Italian-American teenager led the dramatic New Haven garment workers strike that lifted thousands of women into the middle...