The Malta War was the name given to the fighting that broke out in 1809 in Maine’s Kennebec County. At that time,...
America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I....
In 1968, a song about a quack medicine became a No. 1 hit in the U.K. nearly a century after Lydia E....
In 1907, 23-year-old Louis B. Mayer visited a run-down, dingy burlesque theater in Haverhill, Mass., and saw his fabulous future. Then called...
In September of 1893, Rhode Island’s Dr. T. Thatcher Graves poisoned himself with morphine. He said he was driven to it by...
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...