Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
In honor of Valentines Day, the New England Historical Society chose to highlight six love nests. Love nests can be lavish mansions...
The Fourth of July from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannonfire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over...
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
When the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they brought with them two dogs described as a spaniel and a mastiff....
Imagine the White House today with a sunken living room, Danish modern furniture and plywood paneling. The historic old building might have...
On Boston's Rat Day of 1917, the upper-class women of Boston gave $1.34 for every rat carcass turned in. The numbers of...
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
In honor of President’s Day, the New England Historical Society brings you another guide to how to eat like a president. We...
Eleonora Sears pioneered women's sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...