Nathaniel Ingersoll in 1692 stood as a prominent figure in the town of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He served as a deacon of the church, a militia lieutenant and the …

The fourth Thursday in November celebrates a group of immigrants called the Pilgrims. Their story has been told and retold with many errors of omission and commission. Here is the …

David Wyman was a historian of the Holocaust. He spent his academic career at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst teaching, researching and writing about this horrific chapter of history. A 1985 …

In July 1934, a Connecticut congressman named Schuyler Merritt presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the Merritt Parkway. The road would be “constructed for pleasant transit,” he said. Tell that …

Puritanism and piracy together helped colonize New England with the zealous oversight of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick. Known as the “Pious Pyrate” in his day, Warwick sponsored half …

By 1912, social reformer Jacob Riis had spent more than 30 years giving a voice to some of New York City’s most vulnerable citizens using a pen and a camera. …