A good Puritan mother loved and cherished her children, but many died young and she was supposed to be stoic about it....
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
When she was 10 years old, Louisa May Alcott in 1843 was taken to live at a commune called Fruitlands by her...
Margaret Fuller, who spent her life protesting injustice, died at the age of 40 in a shipwreck off New York Harbor while...
The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and John Adams are well known and well marked, but where are the...
William Shakespeare probably saw Epenow when he was put on display in London in 1612. Several English sea captains probably wished they’d...
Edgar Wilson Nye left Maine (he was born in the small town of Shirley) as a small child, but somehow the dry...
William Apess was the perfect person to lead the nonviolent Mashpee Revolt of 1833, an uprising against the Massachusetts government. The commonwealth...
Superstitions about moles were commonplace in colonial New England. One of the most pernicious held that moles and other markings in certain...
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...