Thaddeus Lowe studied by candlelight on his family’s farm in Jefferson, N.H., with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. While work on the...
Denton Crocker spent World War II fighting the Allies’ deadliest enemy in the South Pacific: the mosquito. Malaria struck as many as...
As a merchant and ship owner, it was not at all difficult to persuade John Langdon that the British needed to be...
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts...
Much about Matthew Lyon of Fair Haven, Vt., is unclear, but one thing is certain. He started the first congressional brawl on...