It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...
In the late 19th century, women known as antis began to organize against women who wanted the right to vote. The antis...
Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
Money in the 1600s was a volatile topic in the colonies. In a financial crisis, a currency shortage would freeze up the...
The stately Boston Athenaeum at 10-1/2 Beacon St. owes its storied existence to William Smith Shaw, the obsessive, sickly, curmudgeonly, hard-drinking nephew...