The Portland Rum Riot erupted on June 2, 1855, when the city’s Irish working-class residents found out something about their teetotaling, saloon-raiding...
Free men from three Connecticut towns – Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield – signed The Fundamental Orders on Jan. 14, 1638 (N.S. Jan....
Think you know all about P.T. Barnum, newspaper editor, progressive mayor and hospital founder? Though a legend for his hoaxes and his...
The beloved Civil War song Tenting Tonight captured the war-weariness of the homesick soldier, but it was written by a draftee who...