Just before Pearl Harbor, Chopmist Hill in Scituate, R.I., was the center of the world. That’s what the Federal Communications Commission discovered...
The 1900 U.S. Senate election in Vermont pitted Gov. William Dillingham against Congressman and Gen. William Grout. As the race got nastier,...
In 1914, all the the world, including her hometown of Farmington, Maine, strained its ears for any word that the voice of...
College pranks have been part of the college experience since at least the 13th century, when Oxford students sent a prostitute to...
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the...
In 1948, Look magazine took a poll of art critics and museum directors to determine America’s greatest artist. John Marin won. But...