It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
Jubilee Jim Fisk liked to live large – too large for his own good. He rose from humble beginnings in Vermont to...
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
From 1845 to 1855, famine ships brought 2 million Irish emigrants to ports in Boston, New York and Canada. They were fleeing...
As Halloween approaches, we thought it appropriate to look at some of the most historic cemeteries in New England. Cemeteries are almost...
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
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...
In 1692, the witch trials in Salem finally ended the life Susannah Martin. It was the culmination of a 25-year-long period during...
In 1662 three English Quakers arrived in Dover, N.H. It didn't take long before the Puritan townspeople spoke up about the newcomers....