The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria wasn’t supposed to sink. After all, her designers had learned the lessons from the Titanic disaster. But on a...
The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day. At night they...
William Kidd supposedly buried treasure off the Connecticut coast before sailing to Boston in 1699. There, he thought, he would receive clemency...
Eugene O’Neill lay dying in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel in Boston just before Thanksgiving in 1953. For years he had...
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and...