In the late 1800s and early 1900s, if your wife or husband told you they wanted to spend a few winter months...
In their rigid enforcement of community standards, New England’s Puritan punishments often often included the bilbo, the cleft stick, the brand, the ear...
A century ago, Connecticut’s Art Young was a radical political cartoonist, and many of his drawings would be as relevant today as...
New England wedding customs and superstitions in the 1700s mixed home-grown ideas and practices imported mainly from Britain. Some wedding customs, like ...
Abner Kneeland was a powerful and energetic Universalist minister whose religious doubts and political beliefs sent him to a Massachusetts prison in...
Around 1643, Mary Latham fell in love with a boy who rejected her. About 17 years old and impetuous, Mary Latham decided...