In 1692, Wilmot Redd died on the gallows because her neighbors didn’t like her. Redd (or Reed/Read, by some accounts) was the...
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
As Halloween approaches, we thought it appropriate to look at some of the most historic cemeteries in New England. Cemeteries are almost...
In 1968, a song about a quack medicine became a No. 1 hit in the U.K. nearly a century after Lydia E....
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
In September of 1693, in the aftermath of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, a Boston girl, Margaret Rule, convinced the town that she...
Artists gravitate toward places that inspire them creatively, so you can often find artists houses among splendid scenery or in rural isolation....
Rufus Porter left his mark on early New England homes with stencils on their walls and Scientific American on the coffee table....