The 54th Massachusetts Regiment Waits 18 Months To Get Paid
Exactly one year after the 54th Massachusetts Regiment marched through Boston Common in a blaze of glory, Pvt. Francis H. Fletcher wrote bitterly that the African-American soldiers had not been paid....
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Flashback Photo: Anne Bradstreet, 1st Woman Poet in America
Anne Bradstreet published a book of poetry called The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America that was received well in both Europe and North America. It was 1650. Anne Bradstreet was the first woman...
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Rufus Choate Wins Trial of the Century With Sleepwalking Defense
Rufus Choate was the first person to successfully use the sleepwalking defense in a sensational 19th-century trial for a man accused of murdering a prostitute. Rufus Choate was born in Ipswich, Mass.,...
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Remembering the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
The Great Colonial Hurricane, probably the strongest storm in New England's history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635, and the Rev. Richard Mather and Anthony Thacher had the misfortune of being on board ships...
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The Invention of the Fried Clam
On July 3, 1916, Lawrence ‘Chubby’ Woodman invented the fried clam – or at least as we know the revered mollusk today. It was a hot, steamy day in Essex, Mass. Chubby Woodman and his wife Bessie had...
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