Maine
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6.3KHow the Irish Immigrants Came to New England
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
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6.5KA Lynching in Maine: What Happened to James Cullen
A lynching in Maine is an unusual thing. Throughout New England, lynching was extremely rare. Most lynching occurred in states in the...
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10.6KThe Murder of Mary Bean, Pregnant Mill Girl
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
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11.1KKetchup Made With Sugar? An Offense Against God For Some Mainers
The old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” may have applied to politics, but never to ketchup. The historic novelist...
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9.4KWhen New Englanders Feared a French-Canadian Immigrant Conquest
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
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9.4K1Beginner’s Guide to the French and Indian Wars, All Six of Them
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
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