<p><span class="deck"> Home to royal and republican governors, host to a century of great men, stately Shirley Place in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is falling into ruin</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle">Part hero, part rogue, Boston’s Jim Curley triumphed over the Brahmins in his heyday, but became in the end a figure of pity.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Three times John Glover’s Marblehead fishermen saved Washington’s army; in a final battle, the “amphibious regiment” rowed him to victory across the Delaware</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Proud and independent, the farm girls of New England helped build an industrial Eden, but its paternalistic innocence was not to last</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> A shy Yankee named Hannah Adams never thought of herself as liberated, but she was our first professional female writer.</span> </p>
<p>When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.”</p>
<p><span class="deck"> In founding Groton, Endicott Peabody was sure that muscular Christianity would protect<br />
boys from the perils of loaferism</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A stern but brilliant Yankee revolutionized American higher education while president of our oldest university</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> WHEN JOSEPH KNOWLES STRIPPED TO THE BUFF AND SLIPPED INTO THE MAINE WOODS IN 1913, HE HOPED TO LEAD THE NATION BACK TO NATURE.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the shadow of Bunker Hill, bigots perpetrated an atrocity that showed a shocked nation that the fires of the Reformation still burned in the New World</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In reconstructing the past, Old Sturbridge Village is doing a lot more than selling penny candy and buggy rides. Struggling for verisimilitude, curators are raising scrawny chickens, trudging behind 150-year-old plows—and keeping pesticides out of the orchards.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The author recalls two generations of “Cliffie” life—hers and her mother’s—in the years when male and female education took place on opposite sides of the Cambridge Common and women were expected to wear hats in Harvard Square</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How Hadley, Massachusetts, (incorporated 1661) coped with wolves, drunks, Indians, witches, and the laws of God and man.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">One of America s truly great men—scientist, philosopher, and literary genius—forged his character in the throes of adversity</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Had Thomas Morton raised his maypole anywhere but next door to the Pilgrims, history and legend probably would have no record of him, his town, or his “lascivious” revels.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">While the American Revolution was still being fought, Mum Bett declared that the new nation’s principle of liberty must extend to her, too. It took 80 years and a far-more-terrible war to confirm the rights that she had demanded.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">For a century now, it has been a haven to some, an outrage to others, and it is one of the very few social institutions that have survived their founders’ world.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">On the hundredth anniversary of the unsolved double-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden, is it time to ask: What was going on in Lizzie Borden's family?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stood together in America’s perilous dawn, but politics soon drove them apart. Then, in their last years, the two old enemies began a remarkable correspondence that is both testimony to the power of friendship and an eloquent summary of the dialogue that went on within the Revolutionary generation and that continues within our own.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When Henry Adams sought the medieval world in an automobile, this stuffiest of prophets became the first American to sing of the liberating force later celebrated by Jack Kerouac and the Beach Boys.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Is trial by jury the essential underpinning of our system of justice or, as more and more critics charge, a relic so flawed that it should perhaps even be abolished? An experienced trial judge examines the historical evidence in the case.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A hundred and fifty years ago, famine in Ireland fostered a desperate, unprecedented mass-migration to America. Neither country has been the same since.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Can it be fair? Humane? Does it deter crime? These very current questions troubled Americans just as much in the day of the Salem witch trials as in the day of Timothy McVeigh.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Its waters drove our first Industrial Revolution, and were poisoned by it. Henry David Thoreau believed that the Merrimack might not run pure again for thousands of years, but today, it is a welcoming pathway through a hundred-mile-long red-brick museum of America’s rise to power.</span></p>
<p>New England industrialists hired thousands of young farm girls to work together in early textile mills—and spawned a host of unintended consequences.</p>
<p>In “the cradle of the American Revolution,” loyalists to the Crown faced a harsh choice: live with terrible abuse where they were, or flee to friendlier, but alien regions.</p>
