The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...
Though the quintessential New England house is usually considered a white clapboard farmhouse or Cape, we actually have quite a few mid-century...
As a terrified applicant to Harvard, 15-year-old John Adams showed few signs of becoming a Founding Father, diplomat, statesman and president of...
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...
Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
A portrait of Roger Williams is easy to sketch in words: Baptist minister banished from Massachusetts, founding father of Rhode Island and...
The American Revolution was on in 1780, but that didn’t stop Harvard professor Samuel Williams from venturing behind British lines in Maine...
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
The oldest public high schools in the United States all stand in New England, probably because the Puritans believed in educating children...
To make a claim for the oldest houses in New England inevitably invites controversy. The region has plenty of very old houses,...