Samuel Morse as a young man wanted nothing more than to be an artist, an aspiration upon which his Puritan parents frowned....
In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired...
In 1771, the British government desperately needed to know how American colonists felt about fishing policies. Stephen Higginson filled them in, and...
On March 5, 1770, Matthew Kilroy shot Samuel Gray to death during the Boston Massacre. Kilroy had fought with Gray earlier, and...
At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...