Before New England gave the world Howard Johnson’s, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald’s and Subway, it invented the Waldorf Lunch. The Waldorf Lunch System...
In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
With Mother’s Day soon upon us, it’s a good time for a reminder about heroic moms. For much of New England history,...
New England has a rich Irish history, and it isn’t all about the Great Hunger and the Kennedys. Today, New England is...