On one of the shortest days of the year, a group of Plymouth citizens continue a centuries-old tradition by celebrating Forefathers Day....
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
Ten years after the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all...
Just after the American Revolution, an English essayist named William Gifford reported that some Americans planned to substitute Hebrew as the official language...
On a June night in 1777, Gen. Alexander Scammell poured out his heart in a letter to Abigail Bishop of Mistic, Mass....
On May 16, 1874, the cheap and shoddy Mill River dam collapsed, killing 139 people and wiping out four towns in western...