Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

From the start, the airport, then called Friendship, grabbed headlines. Once completed, it dwarfed New York’s LaGuardia ...

Marina Whitman was thrilled when President Richard Nixon announced her appointment in January 1972 as one of three members of ...