Money in the 1600s was a volatile topic in the colonies. In a financial crisis, a currency shortage would freeze up the...
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
In the early New England colonies, life was largely spent tending to essentials. But the colonists still managed a few laughs. Colonial...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
John Quincy Adams swam naked in the Potomac, kept an alligator in the White House and won freedom for Africans who mutinied...
Independence Day from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannon fire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over...