William Miller famously led thousands of people on a religious wild goose chase in 1844 that ended only when (to his followers’ disappointment) the world did not end. If Miller …

More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper burial. His name is Fortune, and his journey to this point starkly illustrates the timeline of …

Ernest Baynes was the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Dr. Doolittle. All sorts of New England birds and animals–foxes, …

In 1951, Boston Evening Traveler columnist Walter Schofield began campaigning for the city to create a path taking pedestrians past milestones of the American Revolution. By May, Mayor John Hynes …

When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already there voraciously reading books. Malcolm X, though, read …

Fifty years ago when the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom electrified the nation, buses came from everywhere, filled with people clamoring for social and economic justice. They didn’t …