When a judge sentenced two Italian anarchists named Sacco and Vanzetti to die for a crime they said they didn’t commit, an...
In 1888, Clarence King started to lead two secret lives, one on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In Manhattan, he was...
James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
On July 24, 1874, a Friday, schoolteacher Marietta Ball left her St. Albans, Vt., school at 3:30 in the afternoon. She planned...
The Malta War was the name given to the fighting that broke out in 1809 in Maine’s Kennebec County. At that time,...
Robert Todd Lincoln burned most of his papers and correspondence before he died. Most, but not all. He saved a collection of...