Ellen Day Hale received little recognition for her art during her lifetime, but she did win independence as a new kind of...
Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become president of the confederate states during the Civil War, was no stranger...
Frederick Law Olmsted had played the field of pretty, well-to-do young ladies in 1851 when he decided it was time to get...
New England is dotted with famous writers houses, a testament to the Puritan ideal of literacy and the region’s many publishing houses....
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin, tiring of New England’s cold climate, visited Florida for the first time. They...
When the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they brought with them two dogs described as a spaniel and a mastiff....