The Ashton Valve company was born out of Henry G. Ashton’s desire to make boiler rooms a safer working environment. In its...
Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
Buddy Levy relates an inspiring and harrowing tale in Labyrinth of Ice, his account of the Greely Expedition of 1881-1884. The expedition...
Among the graves of British and American Revolutionary War soldiers on Boston Common lies the body of a 19-year old Chinese teenager...
The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...