In 1805, Frederic Tudor decided to make his fortune by selling ice to people in tropical climates. Most people thought the 23-year-old...
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin, tiring of New England’s cold climate, visited Florida for the first time. They...
“Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark” reads the faded road sign, an artifact on display at the Tubman African American Museum...
On Christmas day in 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write the poem we now know as the Christmas carol, I...
There’s more to being a Boston Brahmin than simply having an early Puritan ancestor, graduating from Harvard and living on Beacon Hill....
In 1860, U.S. Census takers recorded 328 Greek immigrants living in America. Among them were 40 young men and boys. They arrived...