Once, when people traveled by rail, there was a delicacy that you simply had to have if you could get it: the...
On Jan. 26, 1864, a young man from the Pacific Northwest gave a talk to unmarried girls in Lowell, Mass., about a...
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
In 1903 and 1904 the face of American public amusement changed with the successful opening of two new parks in Coney Island:...
George Scigliano won the reverence of Boston’s North End for vanquishing the money lenders, criminals and labor bosses who preyed on poor...