The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...
Born in 1776 to John Mix, Captain Ebenezer Mix was part of the postwar generation who opened up the China trade. First...
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
Dr. Josiah Bartlett saved his own life in the same spirit he signed the Declaration of Independence: by questioning authority. He was...
Justin Morgan became far more famous for the horse he owned than for the brilliant music he wrote. A little six-year-old horse...
In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England would get sick. The...
Everyone knows that stone walls cover the New England landscape like honeycombs. But far fewer people know about the region's hundreds of...
In 1880, Dr. George Miller Beard boarded a train for Moosehead Lake in Maine to see for himself the strange lumberjacks known...
If you’ve ever enjoyed a McDonald’s French fry, you have Luther Burbank to thank. In the 1800s, potato growers were desperately seeking...