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...
In 1908, police in New Hampshire drew up a complaint against Madelon Kenmore, a...
In April 1818, the discovery that a body snatcher had removed eight human bodies...
The discovery of New Hampshire’s infanticides began on Saturday, Aug. 11, 1739, when someone...
Robert Schuyler was one of the most respected men of his era, the last...
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well...
The kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby rocked the world in 1932. But three...
New Hampshire's Constitution, adopted in 1784, was one of the strictest in the new...
Jonathan Daniels smoked cigarettes. He liked to drive fast. He liked a good argument....
Constance Baker Motley encountered overt racism for the first time when she left her...
Over five hours one summer day in 1856, 75-year-old Hannah Jumper and 200 women...
In September of 1693, in the aftermath of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, a Boston...
In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans became obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with...
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister...
In 1692, the witch trials in Salem finally put an end to Susannah Martin's...
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their...
The New England Divorce Reform League sprang up in the late 1800s in response...
A surprise German U-boat visit to Newport Harbor during World War I started with...
Skull and Bones, Yale University’s most famous and most secret society, has inspired sinister...
Robert Todd Lincoln burned most of his papers and correspondence before he died. Most,...
In October of 1774, Boston newspaper publishers Benjamin Edes and John Gil printed a...
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the...
In 1821, Revoltionary War Captain David Perry approached a young Vermont publisher with a...
Sixty-three years before the Boston Tea Party, outraged men launched a nighttime attack on...
Today we’d call it torture, but when the British tortured Ethan Allen in prison...
The American Revolution looked much different through British eyes than it did to the...
In June of 1775, with the Battle of Bunker Hill over, George Washington needed...
Those quarrelsome publishers just love to argue over the honor of being the oldest...
Students returning to school 100 years ago may not have had the same requirements...
What better way to take in New England’s fall foliage than a historic train...
Hugh Lofting, the man who created the children's book character Doctor Dolittle, was an...
Lovers leaps are nearly always found in isolated spots where a fall could kill...
What is so appealing about abandoned places? Cyberspace abounds with photos, videos and bloggers...
Bob Dylan returned to some of his most important roots in 1975 when he...
