The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
He rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. Frederick Douglass didn’t spend a...
In 1875, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the state police department. It was only 10 years old, the first state police force...
During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...
Asher Benjamin, a young country housewright, published a book in 1797 that is responsible for the way much of early New England...
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...