The Fourth of July has been celebrated with feasting, fireworks and festivity since Boston shot off cannons on the first anniversary of...
The Spirit of 76 reappeared again and again after the American Revolution as an idea, as a symbol and as a propaganda...
When the last Connecticut doughboys died in the early 1980s, they took with them memories of a grisly World War I battle...
Ten years after the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all...
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
Identifying New England’s oldest libraries is no easy task. In the early days of European settlement, book collections took many different forms....
Two of the most famous Brutalist buildings in America are still provoking strong emotions in New England decades after they first reared...
Irish landmarks commemorate the history of Irish immigrants in places you might not expect throughout New England. There’s more to Irish-American history...
Eli Terry masterminded many of the time pieces that exist today, and in the process he helped ignite America’s industrial revolution. His...
Football, once called the Boston Game, was played on many historic New England football fields since the 19th century. An organized college...