Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian, caused a stir in the spring of 1815 when he sat in front of the white worshippers...
New England living standards were higher than anyplace else in the world during much of the 17th and 18th centuries. By 1700,...
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...
In June of 1775, with the Battle of Bunker Hill over, George Washington badly needed gunpowder. Rhode Island’s Abraham Whipple accepted a...
In 1968, a song about a quack medicine became a No. 1 hit in the U.K. nearly a century after Lydia E....
Every New England town can claim a ghost and many have a witch in their past, but the melon heads belong to...