In 1839, a young black sailor named James Covey held the key to freedom for 53 Africans who appeared in a Spanish...
Rhode Island’s Governor Samuel Cranston won election as Rhode Island’s governor 30 times, once twice in one year. No other governor surpassed...
The circus bug bit Dexter Fellows early in life. As a boy growing up in Massachusetts he attended the Buffalo Bill Wild...
The kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby rocked the world in 1932. But three years earlier it was Lindbergh’s sister-in-law who faced...
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever built in the state. He’d built...
In 1634, Pequot Indians captured a vessel commanded by English trader John Stone at the mouth of the Connecticut River. They killed...