The Londonderry Scots-Irish prevented New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by being fruitful and multiplying along the border. Massachusetts had taken over...
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun -- well,...
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionary prisoners incarcerated in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death...
Though he wasn’t even a doctor, John Winthrop Jr. diagnosed and medicated hundreds of New Englanders in the latter part of the...
Those quarrelsome publishers just love to argue over the honor of being the oldest newspaper in the United States. But which one...
In early fall of 1713, reports began making the rounds that measles was spreading in New England. Puritan minister Cotton Mather first...
In August 1754, Susannah Johnson gave birth to a daughter in the Vermont wilderness during a forced march by her Indian captors....
Even before European colonists thinned the Indian population in New England, war and disease had already begun their dirty work. A team...
James DeWolf died the second richest man in America after accumulating a fortune from buying, selling and – in one case –...
There has never been an official Massachusetts poet laureate, but there certainly was an unofficial one. Jonathan Plummer of Newburyport, while not...