The little people’s petition was signed by 195 children in Concord, Mass., asking President Lincoln to free all slave children. When Lincoln...
Franklin Pierce was elected as the 14th and possibly worst president of the United States on Nov. 2, 1852. During his presidency...
Democracy formally took root in North America on Oct. 4, 1636, when Plymouth Colony drew up the first written legal code on...
The story of the Rev. Joseph Moody, who preached with a handkerchief over his face, was too good for Nathaniel Hawthorne to...
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a candidate for something the Puritans abhorred: Catholic sainthood. She was born...
Had it not been for his May Day party with a giant Maypole, Thomas Morton might have established a New England colony...