On July 20, 1942, Dorothy Sparks went for a cookout with friends in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. The plan was to grill...
Charles Goodyear might have live out his life as an obscure hardware store owner if the Great India Rubber Panic never took...
As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s...
Before the Italian-American community (much to the chagrin of many) was branded as the face of organized crime, Irish Americans had their...
Philip Ashton, a 19-year-old fisherman, escaped captivity by the vicious pirate Edward Low on a remote Caribbean island. For 16 months he...
In March of 1905, with spring weather coming, the operators of the Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Mass., decided to switch off...