On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
America’s drinking habits were changing for the better as the new country passed its 50th anniversary, at least according to a Rhode...
Abel Buell, an uncommonly ingenious cartographer, created the first map of the United States. But he did it only after he lost...
Catherine Greene was the devoted wife of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, the mother of five children and – possibly – the...
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...