The great 1936 flood began on March 11 with a downpour in New England that didn’t stop for 14 days. The rain...
Dr. Seuss lived much of his life in California and New York, but never really left Springfield, Mass., where he was born...
Frances Perkins was having tea with her friend, Mrs. Gordon Norris, in New York City, on the afternoon of March 25, 1911, when...
George M. Cohan at 22 years old produced a Broadway play that injected American theatre with something new: energy and speed. Called...
In May 1942, Norman Rockwell stopped by a drab bureaucrat’s office in the Pentagon and learned of the urgent need for images...
Horace Vose, a ]Westerly, R.I., turkey farmer, sent his turkeys to 11 presidents for four decades of Thanksgiving dinners and drama. Every...