In 1884, a French parish in Fall River, Mass., locked its Irish pastor out of the church and made his life a...
The New England roots of W.E.B. Du Bois shaped his thought and his activism, and led to his rise as a leading...
Like many vigilante groups in New England, the Society of Mutual Aid Against Thieves came about for good reason in Worcester, Mass.,...
In September of 1943, witnesses saw David Bacon drive his sports car off a California highway and into a bean field. As...
On the morning of Jan. 26, 1876, a woman screamed from her bedroom window that burglars had robbed the Northampton National Bank...
The 2015 Tom Hanks film Bridge of Spies tells the dramatic story of Bill Donovan, an insurance lawyer called on to defend...