For over 100 years, people have tried to figure out who killed Dr. William...
On July 16, 1943, two Miami police officers cruised into Bar Harbor, Maine, and...
Hannah Duston and Elizabeth Emerson both confessed to the Rev. Cotton Mather about the...
When a group of hoodlums decided to rent a cottage on Salisbury Beach for...
On the moonless night of July 29, 1976, a group of young Mashpee Wampanoag...
Hollywood icon James Cagney took a break from the demands of movie-making in 1936...
The continuing scientific evaluation of the Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty site has revealed some exciting new...
The potato wasn’t always a beloved staple throughout the world, a cherished tradition mashed...
Robert Frost owed a lot to his closest friend, Louis Untermeyer. Untermeyer, a preeminent...
On a bitterly cold day in the winter of 1779, the Dr. Simeon Smith...
There’s Something About an Aqua Velva Factory Town
Why Do We Say Hello? Thank Connecticut
Old Town Canoe, Inspired by the Penobscot People
George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement in September 1847. On that day he gave...
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 men from Martha’s Vineyard would...
A camera made an improbable weapon against the growing evil of child labor in the early 20th century. Then, children as young...
As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their shops and laundries for the day. Breaking through...
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 how intense the feuding between the British loyalists and the Colonial rebels was in 1774 in New...
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...
On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and laborers in a vain effort to destroy a...
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...
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
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. So perhaps...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....
Hollywood icon James Cagney took a break from the demands of movie-making in 1936 and bought an antique house and 200 acres...
For over 100 years, people have tried to figure out who killed Dr. William Dean at his farm in Jaffrey, N.H., and...
The continuing scientific evaluation of the Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty site has revealed some exciting new discoveries. Charles Stearns Wheeler built the shanty in...
In 1942, like thousands of men from throughout New England, a young man from a Polish neighborhood in Salem, Mass., enlisted to...
The potato wasn’t always a beloved staple throughout the world, a cherished tradition mashed with gravy at Thanksgiving and fried to a...
Helping cooks make authentic foods Wondering what to cook for Thanksgiving? Want to make something a little different, yet traditional? 21 Historic...
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