In 1892, Manuel Viera Martins retired from whaling and bought a cottage in the Waquoit section of Falmouth, Mass. He and his...
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
Jolly Jane Toppan killed at least 31 people between 1880 and 1901, but the doctors who hired her thought she was one...
It should be no surprise that New England’s stony soil should produce a goodly number of strange rocks. They have such nicknames...
Titicut Follies exposed the sordid and cruel treatment of prisoners in 1966 at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater,...