Charles Goodyear might have live out his life as an obscure hardware store owner if the Great India Rubber Panic never took...
In 1805, Frederic Tudor decided to make his fortune by selling ice to people in tropical climates. Most people thought the 23-year-old...
In the early part of the 20th century, you could buy Sears houses for the price of a good pair of shoes...
From 1967 to 1979, Puerto Rican riots broke out in New England cities from Waterbury, Conn., to Worcester, Mass. Outsiders didn’t understand...
The legendary Cold Friday of 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it for generations....
Christopher Seider was just 11 in 1770, a working boy in Boston at a time when the city was awash in the...