On July 24, 1874, a Friday, Marietta Ball - a school teacher in St....
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...
Louis Brandeis during Hanukkah in 1915 delivered a message to the Zionists of America...
From 1845 to 1855, famine ships brought 2 million Irish emigrants to ports in...
Merrie Old England used to spend Sunday afternoons the way we do now: enjoying...
The year 1620 is well known as the date the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth,...
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...
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...
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...
Merrie Old England used to spend Sunday afternoons the way we do now: enjoying sports. King James actually encouraged his subjects to...
In April 1818, the discovery that a body snatcher had removed eight human bodies from their final resting place shocked the people...
In 1728, Royal Governor William Dummer arrived in Massachusetts with nine ‘goffe clubs,’ but it would be another 150 years before golf...
Military heroes who sacrificed for their country certainly deserve to be remembered on Memorial Day weekend. Some remember them with parades and...
Revolutionary holidays didn't start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...
Lydia Sherman had an unfortunate addiction to murder. She went on a decades-long killing spree in New York and Connecticut, poisoning at...
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has one. You may know about some, but others may...
The Puritans were never known for their lighthearted play, but there were games in colonial New England - often to the disgust...
Though the quintessential New England house is usually considered a white clapboard farmhouse or...
Though he wasn’t even a doctor, John Winthrop Jr. diagnosed and medicated hundreds of...
In 1930, Varick Frissell traveled north to Canada to make what would turn out...
