Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts...
Alan Shepard was only the second person to enter space, but the first to hit a golf ball on the moon. On...
During George Washington’s final months as president, a 20-year-old slave named Ona Judge Staines slipped out of the President’s House in Philadelphia....
When the captain of the French ship Magnifique sailed in to Boston Harbor in the summer of 1782, he would have been...
In 1892,timber baron James E. Henry bought 100,000 acres of virgin timber in Northern New Hampshire and began clear-cutting the White Mountains....
Bob Montana drew his first Archie comic book in 1942 in a rented cottage on Lake Waukewan in Meredith, N.H. The character would...