The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America's oldest and most prestigious honor society. Its goal is promoting excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Almost 100 years after its founding, ...

The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn. in the late 1600s. They were named for their founder, John Rogers Jr., who was from a well-to-do New London family. The story most often told ...

Why did anyone bother to build Barkhamsted Lighthouse in the hills of Western Connecticut? According to legend it was a love denied that inspired the village that became known as Barkhamsted Lighthouse. Author and educator Lewis S. Mills turned the ...

In the early 1600s, the Anglican Church was under criticism from all manner of dissenters offering a wide variety of opinions on how the church should change. The Puritan beliefs are probably the best-remembered, and the Puritan zeal to change ...

Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in 1796. The 600 or so Catholics living in Massachusetts were mostly poor Irish and a few French. They ...

Does the Book of Mormon, the sacred text of the Mormon Church, owe its existence to Nathaniel Woods, leader of an unusual Vermont religious sect founded in 1789? Some historians see a connection. The story of Nathaniel Woods and his ...

When she was 10 years old, Louisa May Alcott in 1843 was taken to live at a commune called Fruitlands by her high-minded but improvident father. Fruitlands was a utopian experiment, a model of love and unselfishness for the rest ...

Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. Mindful that Mother's Day is around the corner, we bring you more than six New England mothers who left a mark on ...

Margaret Fuller, who spent her life protesting injustice, died at the age of 40 in a shipwreck off New York Harbor while onlookers watched from the shore. She was America’s first feminist, first female literary critic and first woman foreign ...

In 1656, the Hartford Controversy cost Rev. John Russell his job. In the 1650s the church at Hartford, Conn. was one of the most prominent congregations in the colonies. Built by Rev. Thomas Hooker, today regarded as the Father of ...