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
New England was well ahead of the game when it came to integrating professional sports, and a man from a city nearly in its center, …
Politics & Military
You’ve seen the American Revolution unfold on screen in Ken Burns’s The American Revolution—through paintings, documents, narration, reenactments and footage of the landscapes where history …
Business & Labor
The ubiquitous Dixie Cup, created in the 20th century, initially served to halt the spread of disease and then to meet the needs of the …
Religion & Social Movements
When a white-robed figure strode down Commercial Street in Bath, Maine, in 1854 with a battered brass horn and calling himself the Angel Gabriel, the …
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 …
