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 …

When Timothy Leary famously turned on, tuned in, and dropped out, he took a lot of people with him. One prominent name hovers tantalizingly close to the list: President John …

Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the story is the same. Money-hungry owner of a rare ‘authentic’ bit of American history has his …

The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It happened well before the nativist movement reached its …

Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women — including poor African-American women — to support themselves. She never …