In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans grew obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with the dead. The movement, which began in 1848...
Gideon Welles of Glastonbury, Conn. would rise in the political ranks to become Secretary of the Navy under presidents Abraham Lincoln and...
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground, with the French and British at loggerheads. The British Navy, with the support of...
John Wilkes Booth sympathized with the South during the Civil War, but he planned to move to Boston, a Northern city full...
In 1844, young people of Massachusetts were treated to a new board game: Pope and Pagan, or Siege of the stronghold of...
In 1884, a French parish in Fall River, Mass., locked its Irish pastor out of the church and made his life a...