George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
New Hampshire’s Constitution, adopted in 1784, had some of the toughest restrictions on religious freedom in the new United States. It stated...
Frances Splettscher was the first of the Waterbury radium girls to die. In 1921 at the age of 17, she had gone...
When the unfinished Washington Monument was still but an eyesore on the National Mall, William Wetmore Story tried to prevent it from...
John Bapst, a Swiss Jesuit priest, arrived in New York City in 1848 just as Know Nothing bigotry gathered force in the...
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...