Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore...
The United States came close to losing two presidents within a year after a...
Jubilee Jim Fisk liked to live large – too large for his own good....
Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t...
On July 24, 1874, a Friday, Marietta Ball - a school teacher in St....
In 1876, Junius Morgan, a wealthy Hartford banker living in London, had started at...
In 1913, a juicy report on Hartford’s 200 sex workers came into such demand...
In 1742 Tom Bell was probably the most well known product of Harvard College...
In 1635, Mary Sholy had the tragic misfortune of meeting William Schooler. Schooler was...
Gay Puritans in 17th century New Haven Colony were better off with money than...
The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t...
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up...
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in...
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same...
In 1860, a poor Yankee preacher named Dwight L. Moody met the Illinois rail-splitter,...
Annie Sullivan overcame her disability and crushing poverty to win worldwide fame as the...
Louis Brandeis during Hanukkah in 1915 delivered a message to the Zionists of America...
From 1845 to 1855, famine ships brought 2 million Irish emigrants to ports in...
Merrie Old England used to spend Sunday afternoons the way we do now: enjoying...
The year 1620 is well known as the date the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth,...
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set...
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat...
There was a shot, and it was heard around the world, but who fired...
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find...
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a...
During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against...
On March 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott voted with 19 other women for the...
Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people...
For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government...
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the...
Henry Knox and Alexander Hamilton formed a close, lifetime friendship during the American Revolution....
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one knew for sure whether it would even survive....
You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox, and you may well have visited one of...
Merrie Old England used to spend Sunday afternoons the way we do now: enjoying sports. King James actually encouraged his subjects to...
In April 1818, the discovery that a body snatcher had removed eight human bodies from their final resting place shocked the people...
In 1728, Royal Governor William Dummer arrived in Massachusetts with nine ‘goffe clubs,’ but it would be another 150 years before golf...
Military heroes who sacrificed for their country certainly deserve to be remembered on Memorial Day weekend. Some remember them with parades and...
Revolutionary holidays didn't start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...
Lydia Sherman had an unfortunate addiction to murder. She went on a decades-long killing spree in New York and Connecticut, poisoning at...
Green Mountain Boy Seth Warner might have been a forgotten Revolutionary War hero had...
The creative spirit that moves people to sculpt and paint also tends to inspire...
