That little can of Underwood Deviled Ham on your grocer’s shelves represents a company that once fed the Union Army, built the...
Robert Roberts moved comfortably among Boston’s Brahmin class, not as an equal but as an African-American servant. He was good at his...
You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox, and you may well have visited one of...
In 1805, Frederic Tudor decided to make his fortune by selling ice to people in tropical climates. Most people thought the 23-year-old...
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
Colonial New England had no shortage of illness and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering with diseases...