The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day. At night they...
When le Comte Rochambeau and his 6,000 men sailed into Newport Harbor on the afternoon of July 11, 1780, they expected...
To make a claim for the oldest houses in New England inevitably invites controversy. The region has plenty of very old houses,...
The Rev. Henry Wight is the unlikely inventor of today’s loud and raucous Fourth of July celebrations. A quiet, pious and amiable...
The American Revolution probably wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the Revolutionary taverns where patriots and Loyalists gathered to talk...
Revolutionary War battlefields abound in New England, where, after all, the whole thing began. The patriots fought the British in every colony...