Hugh Lofting, the man who created the children's book character Doctor Dolittle, was an MIT trained civil engineer who spent much of...
Robert Todd Lincoln burned most of his papers and correspondence before he died. Most, but not all. He saved a collection of...
In 1742 Tom Bell was probably the most well known product of Harvard College in America. The entire nation knew how he...
If Frederick Tuckerman had been born a woman, you might think he was Emily Dickinson’s twin. Like Emily, Frederick Tuckerman came from...
David Dunbar had an uncanny ability to agitate people. He was born in Ireland to a family of little means, but in...
The kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby rocked the world in 1932. But three years earlier it was Lindbergh's sister-in-law who faced...
There was no love lost between Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Hamilton famously castigated Adams in a pamphlet published in 1800 entitled,...
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the...