The New England roots of W.E.B. Du Bois shaped his thought and his activism, and led to his rise as a leading...
Martin Luther King Jr. spent plenty of time in New England, and not just giving speeches about civil rights. He worked in...
The giant Halloween ephemera factory in Framingham, Mass., for many years churned out crepe paper and cut-outs that collectors go crazy for...
J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
In July of 1911, Hiram Bingham raced to climb to the top of South America’s tallest mountain before a 60-year-old schoolteacher named...
Robert Hallowell in 1792 decided to leave England and to return to America permanently. He had fled Boston during the American Revolution,...