Bar Harbor in its Gilded Age heyday was a place where the moneyed class...
Bar Harbor Babylon, just released by Down East Books, takes you inside Maine’s premier...
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore...
The United States came close to losing two presidents within a year after a...
Kendall Square Loses the Space Race to Houston
The Rescue of the USS Constitution, ‘Old Ironsides’
John Aylett, The Royalist Adventurer Who Owned a Boston Tavern
George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement in September 1847 when he spoke to farmers...
The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 1903 with the musical help of a raucous fan club called the...
There is, in fact, gold in seawater. And that is the kernel of truth upon which two Martha’s Vineyard men would build...
A camera was an improbable weapon against the growing evil of child labor in the early years of the 20th century. Then,...
As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their shops and laundries for the day. Breaking through the...
A jury convicted Styles Bridges, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, of attempting to blackmail Wyoming Sen. Lester Hunt. Under the deal,...
The chance to board the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic was too great a thrill to pass up for the adventurous...
To get an idea of the how intense the feuding between the British loyalists and the Colonial rebels was in 1774 in...
John Cheever, the sadly elegant chronicler of New England WASPdom, spent a year working for Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. He spent...
New York Harbor -- September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall Street in New York City, where the Staten...
[jpshare] On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and laborers in a vain effort to destroy...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper burial. His name is Fortune, and his journey...
Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the story is the same. Money-hungry owner of a...
A black king of New England, Nero Brewster, introduced a bill to gain his freedom to the General Assembly in 1779. It...
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most loathsome blight the state ever produced. Born in...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....
One of the great what-ifs in the history of metropolitan Boston is: What if NASA had moved to Kendall Square in Cambridge,...
Once New Englanders decided to save the historic Old South Meeting House in 1876, they began to preserve others kinds of historic...
Bar Harbor in its Gilded Age heyday was a place where the moneyed class could fool around without the prying eyes of...
Robert Roberts gives detailed recipes for drinks, polishes and cleaners as well as advice on how to behave in The House Servant's...
Robert Roberts moved comfortably among Boston’s Brahmin class, not as an equal but as an African-American servant. He was good at his...
Humphrey Atherton had far more power and influence than his victims, Quakers he persecuted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s....
On April 3, 1814, the United States almost lost its most famous ship: the U.S.S. Constitution. But thanks to the quick thinking...
Capt. John Aylett, an English nobleman, launched his career on the high seas in Boston after he fled his native country to...
George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement...
The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 1903 with the musical...
There is, in fact, gold in seawater. And that is the kernel of truth...
A camera was an improbable weapon against the growing evil of child labor in...
As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their...
A jury convicted Styles Bridges, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, of attempting to...
The chance to board the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic was too great...
To get an idea of the how intense the feuding between the British loyalists...
John Cheever, the sadly elegant chronicler of New England WASPdom, spent a year working...
New York Harbor -- September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall...
[jpshare] On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper...
Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the...
A black king of New England, Nero Brewster, introduced a bill to gain his...
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the...
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last...
On April 3, 1814, the United States almost lost its most famous ship: the...
Capt. John Aylett, an English nobleman, launched his career on the high seas in...
Humphrey Atherton had far more power and influence than his victims, Quakers he persecuted...
Robert Roberts moved comfortably among Boston’s Brahmin class, not as an equal but as...
Once New Englanders decided to save the historic Old South Meeting House in 1876,...
Robert Roberts gives detailed recipes for drinks, polishes and cleaners as well as advice...
One of the great what-ifs in the history of metropolitan Boston is: What if...
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 Unleashes Terror on an Unsuspecting Town
Black Husband, White Scientist: The Secret Double Life of Clarence King
The Mysterious Moodus Noises of Connecticut
May Alcott, Forever Shadowed by Older Sister Louisa
When Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Honeymooned (and Partied) in Westport, Conn.
A Green Mountain Boy Stars in an 1839 Romance Novel, Heaving Bosoms and All
Robert Roberts Tells All – About How To Be a House Servant in 1827
The Curse of Humphrey Atherton
Discovery of Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site at Flints Pond Is Likely
