Louis Brandeis during Hanukkah in 1915 delivered a message to the Zionists of America that described the holiday as a celebration of...
In April 1818, the discovery that a body snatcher had removed eight human bodies from their final resting place shocked the people...
What could be a better guarantee that your name will never be forgotten than having a food named after you? Here, in...
On the moonless night of Dec. 18, 1813, a pair of mysterious blue lights at the mouth of the Thames River thwarted...
The poorhouse was once a very real and often feared part of life in New England. Poorhouses evolved from the English poor...
Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts...