Crime & Scandal
On Saturday evening, Sept, 28, 1895, Georgetta Dalby received a letter from her husband postmarked Boston saying that he could no longer go on living. …
Arts & Leisure
It was a spectacular 13-inning pitchers’ duel at Fenway Park between two baseball giants: Washington’s Walter Johnson, the American League’s dominant pitcher, and 22-year-old Babe …
Politics & Military
Aaron Lopez (1731-1782), a Sephardic Jew, became the wealthiest merchant in colonial Newport, R.I. Unfortunately, the American Revolution devastated his domestic and foreign business. While …
Business & Labor
Crane & Co., for many years made money making money in western Massachusetts. U.S. currency was made from Crane paper. So was fine stationery used …
Religion & Social Movements
From the tall windows of Sempringham Hall, eleven-year-old Anne Dudley could see out over the vast marshy fenlands of Lincolnshire. Sheep grazed on the low …
Science & Nature
In the fall of 1883, people in Salem, Mass., might have noticed a young Asian man dressed in Western clothing walking about the city. The …