In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one knew for sure whether it would even survive....
Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War POW, spent 50 years in exile in England, where he met King George III, Benjamin Franklin and...
The wealthiest towns in each New England state all have good schools, beautiful homes and well-preserved historic districts. They are also, unsurprisingly,...
Today we’d call it torture, but when the British tortured Ethan Allen in prison they called it ‘harsh treatment.’ On Sept. 25,...
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
Samuel Bemis was a Boston dentist who bought one of the first cameras in America in 1840 and took the first known...
Let's face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can't take advantage...
You didn’t have to show courage in battle to be a revolutionary hero. But if you were, it probably took more than...
It was a rare town in New England that was given a unique name by the early English and Scots-Irish settlers. Many...
On October 11, 1776, British military forces finally drove the American military from Lake Champlain at the Battle of Valcour Island. Connecticut’s...