Politics and Military
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1.7KThe Rescue of the USS Constitution, ‘Old Ironsides’
On April 3, 1814, the United States almost lost its most famous ship: the U.S.S. Constitution. But thanks to the quick thinking...
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1.5KJohn Aylett, The Royalist Adventurer Who Owned a Boston Tavern
Capt. John Aylett, an English nobleman, launched his career on the high seas in Boston after he fled his native country to...
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1.5KWhen Annapolis Moved to Newport, RI
The United States Naval Academy is and was located in Annapolis, Md., and that posed a problem with the advent of the...
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5.6K1How the Codfish Started the American Revolution
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
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6.9KHow the Londonderry Scots-Irish Saved New Hampshire from Massachusetts
The Londonderry Scots-Irish prevented New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by being fruitful and multiplying along the border. Massachusetts had taken over...
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3.6KThe Irish-American Army That Attacked Canada from a Vermont Farm
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
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3.6KWhen Massachusetts Abolished the State Police
In 1875, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the state police department. It was only 10 years old, the first state police force...
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2.3KJames Somerset, the Boston Runaway Who Ended Slavery in England
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. There, James Somerset would be...
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2.8KRhode Island’s Little Annapolis: The PT Boat Training Center at Melville
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
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