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....
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In 1913, a juicy report on Hartford’s 200 sex workers came into such demand...
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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...
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Merrie Old England used to spend Sunday afternoons the way we do now: enjoying...
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The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of...
Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t...
James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of...
Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War POW, spent 50 years in exile in England, where...
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted...
In 1838, politicians in Washington, like Maine representative Jonathan Cilley, didn't have Twitter to...
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...
Three out of every four Americans watched the Jackie Kennedy White House tour on...
The United States came close to losing two presidents within a year after a...
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one...
Jubilee Jim Fisk liked to live large – too large for his own good....
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of...
According to the legend of the Higley copper, a Connecticut doctor with a powerful...
You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox,...
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same...
Ever since visiting the Henry Knox Museum in Thomasville, Maine, we at the New...
Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t...
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...