Forget The Bear – the 1990s drama, which starred Richard Griffiths as a detective-cum-sleuth, perfected the recipe for ...

Heather Cox Richardson lives in Maine and teaches 19th-century American history at Boston College.

In the mid-19th century, a daring dream took shape as two nations celebrated the historic link created by an undersea cable beneath the English Channel. But one man, Frederic Newton Gisborne, ...