James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
The Malta War was the name given to the fighting that broke out in 1809 in Maine's Kennebec County. At that time,...
As early as 1735, residents living along the New Hampshire-Vermont border reported a New Hampshire volcano erupted violently. The inhabitants of Fort...
In 1635, Mary Sholy had the tragic misfortune of meeting William Schooler. Schooler was not the sort of man the early settlers...
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
In 1784, a Vermont moose went to Paris to settle an argument between a French natural historian and Thomas Jefferson. The historian,...
The Penobscot sachem Joseph Orono died in 1801, too early to know about his consolation prize for losing his people’s land to...
In 1643, Londoners were worried about the well-being of street children. So they developed a scheme to improve the children's lot in...
Here are five highlights from the journeys of Abraham Lincoln in New England. Lincoln made two trips to New England, in September...
Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become president of the confederate states during the Civil War, was no stranger...