For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
As a terrified applicant to Harvard, 15-year-old John Adams showed few signs of becoming a Founding Father, diplomat, statesman and president of...
In 1728, Royal Governor William Dummer arrived in Massachusetts with nine ‘goffe clubs,’ but it would be another 150 years before golf...
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere took the most famous of all midnight rides in American history. He was famous because Henry...
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
Ellen Day Hale received little recognition for her art during her lifetime, but she did win independence as a new kind of...
In 1907, 23-year-old Louis B. Mayer visited a run-down, dingy burlesque theater in Haverhill, Mass., and saw his fabulous future. Then called...
In the years before World War I, New England’s iconic triple decker brought thousands of immigrants into the middle class. Triple deckers...
Shortly after the American Civil War, a new kind of neighborhood emerged in New England cities: a Little Italy. They were poor,...
The oldest synagogues in New England were built well after the first Jewish settlers arrived. Touro Synagogue, the only surviving synagogue from...