Timothy Dexter was considered a lucky fool for selling coal to Newcastle and bed warmers to the tropics – and somehow making...
Ed Ames, best known for playing Mingo on the Daniel Boone television series in the 1960s, was actually a Ukrainian Jew from...
Before Erle Stanley Gardner created the fictional lawyer Perry Mason, he lived the part of a pugnacious defense attorney. He represented the...
Lydia Patterson didn’t want to seem too nosy during her first hour at boarding school in Portland, Maine, on June 12, 1843....
Harriet Hanson Robinson went to work as a Lowell mill girl when she was 10 years old to help support her family....