John Quincy Adams’ diary must have been irresistible reading for his bad boy brother Charles. John Quincy started his diary at the...
The name “John Hay” pops up frequently in American history, especially during the second half of the 19th century. John Hay was...
If you wanted to know your grandparents or grandchildren back in the 17th and 18th centuries, your best bet was to live...
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
Grizzly Adams might have gone down as a minor legend in the wilds of California had a fatal injury not taken him...
In 1888, Clarence King started to lead two secret lives, one on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In Manhattan, he was...