Fewer understand them well enough to opine confidently on their legacies. Consider this your cheat sheet. From primers to ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, ...

Among them was Nathaniel Willis, an 18-year-old printer's apprentice working in Boston. Though this name might not sound ...