In the basement of an old Congregational church on New Haven Green lies a small city of the dead. One hundred thirty...
Posterity has treated few characters in the Salem witch trial drama as poorly as Tituba, a woman enslaved in the household of...
One rainy day in the autumn of 1875, a writer named A.A. Smith met Lady Blanche Murphy, the daughter of an earl,...
On May 11, 1659, the Massachusetts Puritans banned Christmas and ordered anyone caught celebrating to pay a fine of five shillings. That...
The four women who cooked that first Thanksgiving probably didn’t feel all that thankful when their husbands invited 90 guests, all Wampanoag...
Samuel Morse as a young man wanted nothing more than to be an artist, an aspiration upon which his Puritan parents frowned....