Once upon a time, "Boston Town" was a large and insulated New England township. But between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a metamorphosis to become a thriving metropolis, one that achieved national and international promin...

A Boston Globe BestsellerOn December 26, 1941, Secret Service agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These wer...

A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history--and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it.Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of ...

“[A] well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city…Puleo’s tale, despite the hardship to come, surely is a tribute to...