Politics and Military
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11.5K4Sandwich, Mass. in 1774 – Setting the Battlelines for Revolution
To get an idea of the how intense the feuding between the British loyalists and the Colonial rebels was in 1774 in...
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10.7K3George Washington’s Submarine: The Turtle, Made in Connecticut
New York Harbor — September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall Street in New York City, where the Staten...
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12.8K4New England Good Life: The Great Madness of Scott Nearing
The announcement of their wedding was that of a classically trained musician to an academic economist and political provocateur. So naturally, when...
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24.3K21Anti-Irish Know Nothing Mob Burns a Charlestown Convent in 1834
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
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15.7K13Black Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
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7.3K1Mammoth Cheese Rolls from the Berkshires to Washington
If you were in Washington on New Year’s Day, 1802, you would undoubtedly recall the Big Cheese of the time. No, not...
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