Wallace Stevens was a plodding insurance executive in Hartford for nearly all of his adult life, except when he spent winter vacations...
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
A century before the film Manchester by the Sea was nominated for six Academy Awards, New England played many a starring role on...
Harriet Hosmer was one of the best known artists — and one of the best known professional women — of her time....
Illicit love affairs are as much a part of history as are war and elections, and the New England Historical Society doesn’t...
Arthur Miller ostensibly wrote his classic drama The Crucible about the Salem witch trials of 1692, but he aimed it at Sen. Joseph...