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....
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...
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...
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...
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of...
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...
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one knew for sure whether it would even survive....
You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox, and you may well have visited one of...
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...
Three out of every four Americans watched the Jackie Kennedy White House tour on...
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one...
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,...
Ever since visiting the Henry Knox Museum in Thomasville, Maine, we at the New...
