People still can’t seem to get enough of the Salem witch trials, which remain a mainstay of popular culture more than three...
In 1775 at age 38, John Hancock was one of the most eligible bachelors among the Boston rebels. Made wealthy by his...
Few criminals built a record as long or as celebrated as Henry Tufts. While history of the colonial era tends to focus...
George Whitney had no use for the nasty greeting card known as the vinegar valentine. Whitney was the Valentine Czar of the...
For the 50 years after 1799, Tabitha Tenney of Exeter was the best-selling novelist in the country, though she wasn’t necessarily proud...
As America started to throw off its Victorian propriety and embrace the Roaring Twenties, the bold, sexy Eva Tanguay showed them the...