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In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most loathsome blight the state ever produced. So perhaps...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....
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George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement...
The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 1903 with the musical...
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A camera made an improbable weapon against the growing evil of child labor in...
As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their...
A jury convicted Styles Bridges, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, of attempting to...
The chance to board the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic was too great...
To get an idea of the how intense the feuding between the British loyalists...
John Cheever, the sadly elegant chronicler of New England WASPdom, spent a year working...
New York Harbor -- September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall...
On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper...
Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the...
A black king of New England, Nero Brewster, introduced a bill to gain his...
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the...
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last...
Ptown, as so many know it, was once a shabby old seaport that had...
In 1924, dozens of Ku Klux Klan members paraded through the tiny logging town...
In 1820 at the age of 78, Thompson Maxwell rode his horse more than...
Kurt Vonnegut wrote the kind of books that students in the 1960s bought to...
Charles Shay, a 19-year-old Penobscot Indian, landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Under heavy...
In 1743, religious enthusiasts ignited a bonfire of the vanities on the docks of...
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