Chances are good you’ve encountered the work of Frederick Law Olmsted more than once in your lifetime. You’ve probably set foot in...
Isaac Bissell electrified the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut with the news of the Battle of Lexington in April 1775. He rode...
Israel Putnam stories abound, but one of the most entertaining dates back to his days in the French and Indian Wars. Known...
When bad boy artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s mother first came to live with him in London in 1864, he had to...
Gen. Israel Putnam famously left his plow in the ground when he heard about the Battles of Lexington and Concord and immediately...