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...
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...
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th...
New England has no shortage of haunted murder scenes, where the ghosts of murder...
Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian, caused a stir in the spring of 1815 when...
Increase Mather could see King Philip’s War coming from his pulpit. All around him...
New England living standards were higher than anyplace else in the world during much...
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to...
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...
During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a...
On April 18, 1775, British soldiers left Samuel Whittemore in a pool of blood...
For four centuries, the West Indies have made an outsized impact on New England....
Tucked away in Haven Park in Portsmouth, N.H. there is an impressive equestrian statue...
The Malta War was the name given to the fighting that broke out in...
Amos Doolittle didn’t let a little political disagreement get in the way of creating...
Jehu Grant, inspired by talk of freedom, escaped slavery in Rhode Island to enlist...
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...
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in...
The wealthiest towns in each New England state all have good schools, beautiful homes...
George Washington famously feared premature burial. While on his deathbed in 1799, he instructed...
As early as 1735, residents living along what is now the New Hampshire-Vermont border...
