At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
The name “John Hay” pops up frequently in American history, especially during the second half of the 19th century. John Hay was...
The United States came close to losing two presidents within a year after a Pittsfield streetcar driver nearly killed President Theodore Roosevelt....
Emma Goldman could have made a fortune from her ice cream parlor in Worcester, Mass. It was 1892, and she was a...
The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Conn., started with 200 books donated by local resident Mark Twain – books he’d scribbled over...
New England is full of sites that hosted past presidential visits as the country’s leaders came north in search of votes, campaign...