The clerestory window makes a lot of sense in New England because of the short, short days during the long, long winter....
What is so appealing about abandoned places? Cyberspace abounds with photos, videos and bloggers waxing elegiac about abandoned old mills, mansions and...
In 1923, Senator Henry Lippitt decided it was time for him to retire. At age 66, he had served in the U.S....
America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I....
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
A convicted counterfeiter and a Connecticut slave made the first U.S. coin, called the fugio cent, in fulfillment of a government contract...