In the summer of 1933, the murder trial of a brassy Peabody, Mass., housewife named Jessie Costello captured the world’s attention. Festive...
On Oct. 9, 1804, a snow hurricane struck Eastern New England, the first time in recorded history a tropical storm produced snowfall....
Rev. Cotton Mather was nothing if not a prolific storyteller and historian (as well as a supporter of the Salem witch trials)....
Eleanor Creesy became an instant celebrity on Aug. 31, 1851, when the clipper ship she navigated sailed into San Francisco harbor. The...
In one important way, Harriet Low had less freedom in 19th century Macao than she did in her hometown of Salem, Mass. She depended completely on Chinese workers...
Timothy Fuller in July 1801 was about to graduate from Harvard, an event, he wrote, that “ushers me with my classmates into...