On July 20, 1942, Dorothy Sparks went for a cookout with friends in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. The plan was to grill...
College pranks have been part of the college experience since at least the 13th century, when Oxford students sent a prostitute to...
Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the mayor of Worcester, Mass., was so eager for a Carnegie library in his...
The dirty novel Peyton Place landed like a bombshell in 1956, a surprise hit by an unknown author. The critics panned it, the...
When Eleanor Estes was growing up in West Haven, Conn., her classmates mocked a Polish girl who wore the same hand-me-down dress...