John Quincy Adams’ diary must have been irresistible reading for his bad boy brother Charles. John Quincy started his diary at the...
Clement Moore took far more pride in the Hebrew dictionary he wrote than in A Visit from St. Nicholas, which he also wrote....
In 1858, young men from Hartford, Conn., organized bodyguards for Republican candidates campaigning through the streets of the Democratic city. They called...
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
Bridgeport, Conn., elected for 24 years a socialist mayor named Jasper McLevy, beloved in the city despite his friendship with a notorious...
He rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. Frederick Douglass didn’t spend a...