The little people’s petition was signed by 195 children in Concord, Mass., asking President Lincoln to free all slave children. When Lincoln...
At dusk on Nov. 9, 1965, 11-year-old Jay Hounsell was walking down the road in Conway, N.H. He was on his way...
In the summer of 1933, the murder trial of a brassy Peabody, Mass., housewife named Jessie Costello captured the world’s attention. Festive...
In 1860, Milton Bradley decided America needed a new game, and so he created a modern blend of the old-fashioned morality games...
After Harry Crosby was nearly killed in World War I, he vowed to live fast and die young. His success scandalized Boston...
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a candidate for something the Puritans abhorred: Catholic sainthood. She was born...