New England has no shortage of haunted murder scenes, where the ghosts of murder victims move furniture in old taverns or float...
If Frederick Tuckerman had been born a woman, you might think he was Emily Dickinson’s twin. Like Emily, Frederick Tuckerman came from...
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
In honor of Valentines Day, the New England Historical Society chose to highlight six love nests. Love nests can be lavish mansions...
Jolly Jane Toppan killed at least 31 people between 1880 and 1901, but the doctors who hired her thought she was one...
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America's oldest and most prestigious honor...
Mabel Loomis Todd is best known for editing and publishing the poems of Emily Dickinson, but she also knew a lot about...
It should be no surprise that New England’s stony soil should produce a goodly number of strange rocks. They have such nicknames...
New England is dotted with famous writers houses, a testament to the Puritan ideal of literacy and the region’s many publishing houses....