Vast Public Indifference

LOL of the day, courtesy of The Globe and Mail : Right next door is the Granary Burying Ground. Here you find the graves of three men who s...

1: Tea Party partisans deride Occupy Wall Street as a "mob." It's not like I expect Sean Hannity to read Gary Nash, but serio...

US Senator James Henry Lane Big Jay The town of Osceola, Missouri has passed a resolution asking the Kansas University Jayhawks to...

I'm off to Connecticut this evening to prepare for a talk I'm giving at the Stanley-Whitman House in Farmington on Saturday. The mu...

If you're looking for inspiration for your Halloween costume, look no further than the Miss Universe 2011 National Costume competitio...

Stono Rebellion: September 9, 1739

If you are a history teacher, chances are, you have read at least one essay that starts out with, Throughout history, societies have . . ....

Urania Rainsford Belcher via Find a Grave

Whenever I find myself wishing I could just time-machine myself back to 17th-century Massachusetts to get some answers to my more maddening ...

The grounds have been laid out in regular alleys and gravel paths, and embellished with a great variety of native forest-trees, some of whi...

Goodeth Copp That's Judith to all you picky spellers out there.

Much of the time, early New England death records (at least in their printed form) are little more than names and dates. Sometimes, we get a...

Charles Bardin stone, 1773, NCBG, Newport, carved by John Bull This week, I've been reading the papers from the 1976 Dublin Seminar...

Copp's Hill, Boston, MA I could not make these things up if I tried.

Smallhope Bigg b. 1605, England d. 1644, Middlesex Co., MA Come on, now. This is just silly. This is not one of those names that se...

Proof that people have been complaining about referees for thousands of years : The tombstone was do...

Rexella van Impe Not a colonial American name — Mrs. van Impe was born in 1932 — but notable anyway.

Love Marks Love was baptized by Rev. William Cooper on August 11, 1728. Her sister, Esther, was baptized at the same time.