One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
Henning Jacobson, a Swedish minister, in 1905 refused vaccination during a smallpox epidemic in Cambridge, Mass., in 1905. Then he refused to...
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, anyone who walked into a New England tavern and ordered a beer probably got a Narragansett....
Government criticism of ‘Fake news’ is nothing new. And trying to silence it was as unpopular in the early days of the...