Commonplace History 

In the days of the Massachusetts Bay colony, when Boston was still but a small peninsula, seemingly tethered to the earth by a mere...

Marseille, France In the year 1720, the last great occurrence of bubonic plague struck the port city of Marseille, France, killing half...

Daniel Horsmanden, chief justice of the New York Court of Judicature, died in 1778 as an unpopular man[1]. He had presided over one of...