In the days after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a general panic seized the population around Boston. Would the British regulars...
In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired...
If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
Ezekiel Cheever taught Latin, writing and arithmetic to the children of New England’s first Puritans for 70 years. He taught in New...
On August 14, 1768, the Daughters of Liberty cheered from windows as the Sons of Liberty paraded through Boston to commemorate their...
On June 10, 1913 a long simmering Ipswich mill strike ground onward. For weeks, 700 mostly Greek workers at the Ipswich Hosiery...