Asher Benjamin, a young country housewright, published a book in 1797 that is responsible for the way much of early New England...
After Frank Grant lost his battle to play on integrated baseball teams, almost 50 years would go by before Jackie Robinson reintegrated...
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
Grizzly Adams might have gone down as a minor legend in the wilds of California had a fatal injury not taken him...
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionary prisoners incarcerated in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death...
In 1888, Clarence King started to lead two secret lives, one on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In Manhattan, he was...