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...
The United States came close to losing two presidents within a year after a...
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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...
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As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their shops and laundries for the day. Breaking through the...
[jpshare]A jury has convicted a U.S. senator from New Hampshire of attempting to blackmail a Wyoming senator. The deal was this: He...
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....
Bar Harbor Babylon, just released by Down East Books, takes you inside Maine’s premier summer resort during its heyday. What happened there...
An amateur archaeologist, Jeff Craig, may have discovered the lost Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site. The 19th-century shanty helped inspire Thoreau to build his...
May Alcott, the real Amy March in Louisa May Alcott’s semi-autobiographical novel Little Women, struggled all her life to win success as...
The United States Naval Academy is and was located in Annapolis, Md., and that posed a problem with the advent of the...
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
The Londonderry Scots-Irish prevented New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by being fruitful and multiplying along the border. Massachusetts had taken over...
In 1920, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald honeymooned in Westport, Conn., so he could write, she could swim and they could both party...
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...
[jpshare]A jury has convicted a U.S. senator from New Hampshire of attempting to blackmail...
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...
An amateur archaeologist, Jeff Craig, may have discovered the lost Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site. The...
May Alcott, the real Amy March in Louisa May Alcott’s semi-autobiographical novel Little Women,...
The United States Naval Academy is and was located in Annapolis, Md., and that...
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
May Alcott, Forever Shadowed by Older Sister Louisa
When Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Honeymooned (and Partied) in Westport, Conn.
A Green Mountain Boy Stars in an 1839 Romance Novel, Heaving Bosoms and All
Discovery of Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site at Flints Pond Is Likely
Seven Fun Facts About Frederick Douglass
The Vermont Eugenics Survey Purifies the Population’s Polluted Protoplasm
