After Jonas Seaman spent $4 for a license to run a “house of Public Entertainment,” he had a signboard painted with the image ...

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was one of the most powerful voices for social justice in US history. Beginning her career much like her lifelong friend Emily Dickinson, Helen wrote Victorian style ...

"Hartford is capable of surprising people," admits Colin McEnroe, Hartford native and the city's unofficial ambassador to the ...

Create your Earth Day plans and find other activities to do with the family. Check out the list for a bunch of things to do ...

Ferocious in debate (the author Harriet Beecher Stowe likened his forensic style to “a bomb . . . [that] bursts and sends red-hot nails in every direction”), he first ran for Congress at age ...

The holiday shopping season is coming, and with it come some of the biggest opportunities to boost sales for ecommerce brands ...

The truth of Black men serving as minutemen has been available for decades. Ardent abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution" in 1855. Believing ...