David Dunbar had an uncanny ability to agitate people. He was born in Ireland to a family of little means, but in...
The Battle of Margaretta, by today’s standards, was really more of a skirmish: a sailing vessel with four guns attacked by woodsmen...
Don Pedro, the handsome, ruthless Spanish pirate, apparently didn’t get the memo in 1832 that piracy was over in the Atlantic Ocean....
New England can claim 57 National Natural Landmarks of the 599 listed throughout the country. The six-state region has a wealth of ...
Many Maine place names are not like the rest of New England's, with Bristols and Yarmouths and Portsmouths named after counterparts in England....
Every New England state has a Town of Warren, but the reason for thos place names is more complicated than you might...
There was nothing like a shipment of white pine Maine timbers from the New England colonies to cheer up a British Royal...
By June 14, 1777, it was high time the Continental Congress to replace a variety of revolutionary flags with the stars and...