The Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857 prostrated New England during the winter of 1856-57, one of the worst ever. Thirty-two...
Before New England gave the world Howard Johnson’s, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald’s and Subway, it invented the Waldorf Lunch. The Waldorf Lunch System...
In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
Rosalind Russell’s long career as a soignee actress with a flair for comedy almost came to an end in 1955, when she...
It’s an oft-told story about the Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty on New York’s Lower East Side to prominence through hard...
For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government – a borough, of which nine currently survive....