In July of 1909, 750 African-American men known as Buffalo soldiers arrived at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, Vt., near the small...
John Wilkes Booth sympathized with the South during the Civil War, but he planned to move to Boston, a Northern city full...
Stephen Hopkins settled both Jamestown and Plymouth, and many believe Shakespeare based a character on him. Though he wasn’t among the first...
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
There has never been an official Massachusetts poet laureate, but there certainly was an unofficial one. Jonathan Plummer of Newburyport, while not...
William Shakespeare probably saw Epenow when he was put on display in London in 1612. Several English sea captains probably wished they’d...