Ever since a Bostonian won the first event in the first modern Olympics, New England has sent more than its share of...
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America's oldest and most prestigious honor...
A historic observatory in New England could be a stone remnant on the Canadian border, a mountaintop clubhouse or a state-of-the-art, NASA-funded...
New England's oldest hospitals are all younger than such venerable institutions as schools, banks, businesses and taverns. Hospitals had been run for...
The Fourth of July from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannonfire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over...
At the close of the American Revolution, Connecticut surgeon Elisha Perkins had a bright future. He had taken up medicine under the...
Football, once called the Boston Game, was played on many historic New England football fields since the 19th century. An organized college...
Once New England had the greatest forests and the tallest trees in the world. They were a major attraction for English colonists...