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...
It was November 1915, and the Great War in Europe was in its second...
Teddy Roosevelt loved the rough-and-tumble of football the way college athletes played it back...
You won’t find the word “Hello” in any plays by Shakespeare, letters by John...
The Old Town Canoe Company couldn’t have started in a better place when it...
As implausible as Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut may seem today, it’s where she thought...
In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old...
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....
In 1692, Satan came to Salem in Massachusetts colony and began to establish his kingdom. He started by cajoling and bullying his...
Stephen Mather went to the wilderness to heal the brainsickness that plagued him throughout his life. Ironically, his work to save America’s...
Anyone who happened to go fishing on Cape Cod’s Mashpee Pond before the Civil War might have seen Daniel Webster there with...
Our reader Colleen LeBoeuf sent us a marvelous letter written by her grandmother describing how her family was stranded in the hurricane...
In the fall of 1902, President Teddy Roosevelt barnstormed New England on behalf of Republican congressmen. He wanted as many elected as...
In 1934, Hitlerite paramilitary groups made headlines goose stepping their way around New York. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover got wind of...
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