Among the graves of British and American Revolutionary War soldiers on Boston Common lies the body of a 19-year old Chinese teenager...
In November 1852, newspapers in Pennsylvania gave over 650 words to assailing the flaws of the New Englander. In a wide-ranging screed...
French place names reveal much about the history of a city or town. They reflect the great historical events that took place...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
Mysterious Dave Mather came to be a lawman in the old West pretty much by chance. The taciturn son of a Connecticut...
In 1931, 44-year-old Rose Wilder Lane saw a manuscript of a book called Pioneer Girl. It told the story of a homesteader...