During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some...
If you live in a New England town with town hall, a school, a church or an opera house, chances are good...
If you’ve ever enjoyed a McDonald’s French fry, you have Luther Burbank to thank. In the 1800s, potato growers were desperately seeking...
In the winter of 1755, two Marshfield, Mass., selectmen knocked on the door of the Michel family, seven Acadian exiles. They brought...