One summer day in the early 1960s, Joseph Kennedy was sitting in his wheelchair in front of his Hyannis Port home,as a...
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy came into the world, his family was not yet wealthy and glamorous, and it hadn’t yet been plagued...
One week after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Theodore White wrote a Life magazine article comparing his administration to Camelot....
Peleg Nye in 1864 had the bad luck to encounter a whale that decided to have him as a snack. As the...