In March 1623, leaders of the struggling Plymouth Plantation dispatched their paid military leader Myles Standish to a coastal settlement 25 miles...
In the winter of 1755, two Marshfield, Mass., selectmen knocked on the door of the Michel family, seven Acadian exiles. They brought...
On October 5, 1936, police got a call to the waterfront at Boston’s Logan Airport. Two men had found a bag in...
Rufus Choate was the first person to successfully use the sleepwalking defense in a sensational 19th-century trial for a man accused of...
When an angry mob of 5,000 ‘gentleman’ in 1835 surrounded the building where Maria Chapman and 45 members of the Boston Female...
The 19th-century writer Celia Thaxter was so outraged by the slaughter of birds for ladies’ hats that in 1886 she became the...