In all the movies, books and histories that explored the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, only a short excerpt from...
In September of 1943, witnesses saw David Bacon drive his sports car off a California highway and into a bean field. As...
Nearly 100 years after he initially created the film Nanook of the North, people are still debating Robert Flaherty's film, describing it...
The Puritans were never known for their lighthearted play, and the Puritan leadership viewed colonial New England games with disgust. In the early...
New England's Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the sentimental and melancholy story of Maud Muller in 1854. The poem, one of...
The best food historians can say is that turkey probably has been on Thanksgiving tables since the beginning, and it's been remarkably...
A portrait of Roger Williams is easy to sketch in words: Baptist minister banished from Massachusetts, founding father of Rhode Island and...
Early New Englanders, influenced by the Puritans, were reluctant celebrants for most holidays. Religious festivals, they felt, were un-Christian and pagan. Yet...
Today apple trees litter the roadsides of New England, often ignored or painted and photographed for their scenic charms. But from the...
Colonists coming from England had plenty of and informal and slang expressions to call someone evil. Here are ten of them: A...