The story of the Duchess of Dix Island begins with a bad investment. In 1839 Horace Beals became a partner in the...
In February 1845, John Alfred Poor made an epic five-day dash through a blizzard in the White Mountains to snatch a railroad...
In the summer of 1881, eight-year-old children working in a Brunswick, Maine, textile mill found out eight-year-old children working in a Lewiston,...
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
A century ago, Connecticut’s Art Young was a radical political cartoonist. Many of his drawings have as much relevance today as they...
Sam Adams was a devout Puritan who brought his religious convictions to the fight for American liberty. That did not mean he...