New Hampshire
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2.1KRobert Frost on World War II: ‘Wisdom Is Better Than Bravery’
Robert Frost owed a lot to his closest friend, Louis Untermeyer. Untermeyer, a preeminent literary critic, had supported his work and helped...
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1.7KDaniel Webster Talks With the Fishes
Anyone who happened to go fishing on Cape Cod’s Mashpee Pond before the Civil War might have seen Daniel Webster there with...
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4.5KThe Sullivan Indian Expedition: One Man’s Victory Is Another’s Ethnic Cleansing
John Sullivan led one of the most successful, least acknowledged campaigns of the American Revolution: the Sullivan Indian Expedition in the summer...
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6.6KPuritan Child Killers: Hannah Duston and Her Sister
Hannah Duston and Elizabeth Emerson both confessed to the Rev. Cotton Mather about the children they’d killed. Hannah had tomahawked six native...
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2.3KDartmouth Starts a Campus Navy in World War II
Eighteen-year-old George Berkowitz, wearing his brand-new Marine uniform, lined up in military order with his Dartmouth College classmates and awaited his orders....
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