From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
The Polaroid Corporation was born in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922 when a teacher showed a 13-year-old how to take...
Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women — including poor...
A red fishing shack at the end of a granite wharf in Rockport, Mass., is an unlikely celebrity. The picturesque old building,...