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
You may remember seeing them sitting above the Green Monster watching Red Sox games during the COVID-19 lockdown. Life-sized, slightly eerie cardboard cutouts of Red …
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
Near the end of the 19th century, Boston needed to alleviate its heavily congested downtown traffic. The three-phase subway project, completed in about three years, …
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 …
