Crime & Scandal
In 18th-century Middletown, Conn., a tall, dark-skinned man named Prince Mortimer walked the same path each day, trudging to his master’s ropeworks where he spun …
Arts & Leisure
The story of Edward Augustus Brackett is also the story of the remarkable diversity of the 19th century. In a long life that spanned nine …
Politics & Military
The Phelps Sacrifice is the second part of a two-part series about one family’s tragic experience of the Civil War. Read Part I here. Having …
Business & Labor
On Nov. 24, 1908 the first credit union in the United States opened for business in Manchester, N.H. Founded on a belief that people with …
Religion & Social Movements
It’s not very often that a man of God has an appointment with the hangman. In 1692, the Rev. George Burroughs had just such an …
Science & Nature
You’ve probably seen his name and glossed over it without a thought. But if you had been born in the 19 th Century, it was …
