When a New England sea serpent was beached off the coast of Scituate, Mass., in 1970, it marked the continuation of a...
William Gilley in 1828 received a rich reward for his support of John Quincy Adams: A $350-a-year job as keeper of the...
Black Sam Bellamy became the wealthiest pirate in history not because of greed but because of anger – anger at the English...
The Empress of China launched the China trade on Feb. 22, 1784, when she sailed out of New York Harbor loaded with...
If it weren’t for Benning Wentworth, Vermont probably wouldn’t exist. Wentworth was the Colony of New Hampshire’s first governor, and on Jan....
Caleb Cushing famously brought a weathervane shaped like an arrow as a gift to the American consul in China in 1844. Cushing,...