During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
On March 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott voted with 19 other women for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. The...
Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact,...
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
Henry Knox and Alexander Hamilton formed a close, lifetime friendship during the American Revolution. But during the Siege of Yorktown, Alexander Hamilton...