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On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and laborers in a vain effort to destroy a...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper burial. His name is Fortune, and his journey...
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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. 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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The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as films about the city just keep coming. George...
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The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....
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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 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...
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings...
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...
The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance...
The New York-based strike, immortalized in the Disney film Newsies, succeeded in 1899. The...
The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as...
New England high school football rivalries go back to the days when teams traveled...
The world’s first known department store Santa Claus owned his own store and paid...
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