With Mother’s Day soon upon us, it’s a good time for a reminder about heroic moms. For much of New England history,...
In 1791, two Salem ministers let an 18-year-old apprentice named Nathaniel Bowditch use the private library to which they belonged. Maritime navigation...
Mary Patten never set out to be a sea captain, but that’s what she became in 1856. She had married Joshua Patten,...
Colonists in Boston revolted against a hated English governor 86 years and one day before the the world heard the shot in...
The Back-to-Africa movement began with a wealthy mixed-race Quaker named Paul Cuffe. He brought African-American Bostonians to a Sierra Leone colony in...
New York Harbor — September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall Street in New York City, where the Staten...