On April 19, 1859, Harriet Wilson copyrighted and deposited a copy of her novel in the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. She called her …

Think the grocery store is charging you too much for that chicken? Gas prices seem a bit out of line? Why not take the stores to court for price gouging? …

As businessmen from the East were busy reaping the profits of the expansion to the American West in 1830s and 40s, another group of New Englanders was less worried about …

Frances Perkins was having tea with her friend, Mrs. Gordon Norris, in New York City,  on the afternoon of March 25, 1911, when they heard fire engines screaming by. As the …

One April evening in 1860. Franklin Sanborn answered a knock on the door of his home in Concord, Mass. Deputy U.S. Marshal Silas Carleton and three men with handcuffs stood …

Integrating Major League baseball was just one of the challenges facing Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ great second baseman. Buying a house in Connecticut’s white suburbs was another. Hall-of-Famer Jackie …