On March 25, 1796, Tobias Lear wrote a disconsolate letter to George Washington telling him his wife had died. Lear, born in...
During George Washington’s final months as president, a 20-year-old slave named Ona Judge Staines slipped out of the President’s House in Philadelphia....
The New Hampshire legend of Ocean Born Mary has pirates, ghosts, a light green silk wedding dress – and some of it...
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...