In 1824, several hundred white people tore down about 20 homes occupied by black...
Bar Harbor in its Gilded Age heyday was a place where the moneyed class...
Bar Harbor Babylon, just released by Down East Books, takes you inside Maine’s premier...
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore...
Timothy Leary Gets the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act Overturned
Oliver Otis Howard, The Mainer Who Founded Howard University
Nine Men’s Misery: ‘Oldest Veterans Memorial’ Honors Tortured Plymouth Colonists.
George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement in September 1847 when he spoke to farmers...
The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 1903 with the musical help of a raucous fan club called the...
There is, in fact, gold in seawater. And that is the kernel of truth upon which two Martha’s Vineyard men would build...
A camera was an improbable weapon against the growing evil of child labor in the early years of the 20th century. Then,...
As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their shops and laundries for the day. Breaking through...
A jury convicted Styles Bridges, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, of attempting to blackmail Wyoming Sen. Lester Hunt. Under the deal,...
The chance to board the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic was too great a thrill to pass up for the adventurous...
To get an idea of the how intense the feuding between the British loyalists and the Colonial rebels was in 1774 in...
John Cheever, the sadly elegant chronicler of New England WASPdom, spent a year working for Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. He spent...
New York Harbor -- September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall Street in New York City, where the Staten...
[jpshare] On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and laborers in a vain effort to destroy...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper burial. His name is Fortune, and his journey...
Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the story is the same. Money-hungry owner of a...
A black king of New England, Nero Brewster, introduced a bill to gain his freedom to the General Assembly in 1779. It...
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most loathsome blight the state ever produced. Born in...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....
In an early display of homophobia, 60 Harvard students dressed up like the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde when he delivered a lecture...
Timothy Leary found out just how screwy America’s cannabis laws were when he got busted for violating the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act....
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was fighting the Civil War to preserve the Union, not to free any slaves. Howard had...
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
On the wooded grounds of an old monastery in Cumberland, R.I., a pile of stones stands next to a cement pillar with...
Jack Kerouac invented a fantasy baseball game with homemade cards that he played well into adulthood. After he played the games, he...
Just after the American Revolution, Gilmanton, N.H., ranked as the 30th biggest municipality in the United States. The Lakes Region town was...
On May 1, 1942, fire leveled more than 300 acres in the Limerock section of Lincoln, R.I. The source of ignition was...
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...
There is, in fact, gold in seawater. And that is the kernel of truth...
A camera was 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...
[jpshare] On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers...
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...
On May 1, 1942, fire leveled more than 300 acres in the Limerock section...
Just after the American Revolution, Gilmanton, N.H., ranked as the 30th biggest municipality in...
Back in the early 20th century, an American Winston Churchill got a letter from...
On the wooded grounds of an old monastery in Cumberland, R.I., a pile of...
Jack Kerouac invented a fantasy baseball game with homemade cards that he played well...
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was fighting the Civil War to preserve the...
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a...
Timothy Leary found out just how screwy America’s cannabis laws were when he got...
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 Unleashes Terror on an Unsuspecting Town
Black Husband, White Scientist: The Secret Double Life of Clarence King
The Mysterious Moodus Noises of Connecticut
Oscar Wilde Stirs Up Boston
Jack Kerouac Fantasy Baseball (Yes, That Jack Kerouac)
The American Winston Churchill, Once More Famous Than the Other
Robert Roberts Tells All – About How To Be a House Servant in 1827
The Curse of Humphrey Atherton
Discovery of Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site at Flints Pond Is Likely
