On Feb. 10, 1945, Jackie and Rachel Robinson got married in a big church wedding in Los Angeles. Two weeks later they...
Jolly Jane Toppan killed at least 31 people between 1880 and 1901, but the doctors who hired her thought she was one...
Dorence Atwater of Terryville, Conn., enlisted in the Union Army expecting to see first-hand the glory of war. Instead he saw its...
In 1863, Louisa May Alcott horrified a Virginia woman by kissing a baby. The woman was white, the baby was black. Alcott...
On Sept. 11, 1855, Hannah Ropes, a 46-year-old single parent, stepped onto a train in Boston and headed to the ‘Far-Off Land’...
Anna Green Winslow was a lively 12-year-old schoolgirl in pre-Revolutionary Boston who wrote to her mother about much of what she did....