During the 19th century, deaf Vineyarders made up a disproportionate number of people born on the island in southeastern Massachusetts. One in...
In 1810, Zareh Colburn took Vermont – and the world – by storm with his uncanny mathematical ability. Born in 1804 in...
A cold April was a prelude to the 1762 drought, one of the worst in the history of New England. It hit...
William T. Hopkins of Franklin, Mass. -- known around the world as Celery Bug Bill -- started his working life as a...
Even during the dreariest spring, New England holds a wealth of places to visit for history lovers. There are battlefields for the...
Henry David Thoreau took his little boat Musketaquid out of the cellar in early March 1855 because the Concord River had iced...
In the late 1800s, Ellen Henrietta Swallow broke down barriers to women not by casting off the duties assigned to them, but...
Before the first colonists and explorers came to New England, before even the American Indian tribes lived here, there were the Red...
The legendary Cold Friday of Jan. 19, 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it...
In 1898, a 39-year-old American woman named Fanny Bullock Workman did something that shocked the tiny clique of wealthy British men who...