If it weren’t for Benning Wentworth, Vermont probably wouldn’t exist. Wentworth was the Colony of New Hampshire’s first governor, and on Jan....
Ezekiel Straw was an unusual mill agent – unusual in a good way. He led the growth of the Amoskeag Millyard and...
Amy Beach’s parents realized their daughter was a prodigy when she knew 40 songs at the age of one, sang countermelodies at...
William Loeb had an outsize influence on national politics as publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire’s statewide newspaper. From 1946...
Sarah Josepha Hale famously campaigned to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, but less well known are her stealth efforts to bring the...
Hobey Baker as a young man received the kind of adulation that only a few people ever get. He was the ideal...