Every winter Block Islanders can spot the ghost of the flaming ship Palatine, or so the legend goes. The tale comes from...
The Sprague-Conkling affair started on a pleasant day in August of 1879 at Narragansett Pier, a fashionable resort, in Rhode Island. The...
On Jan. 13, 1942, German U-boat attacks officially started against merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. From then until...
By 1648, most New England leaders had it in for Samuel Gorton. In just a handful of years he had been kicked...
When John Winthrop set foot on the shores of Salem in 1630, he carried with him an out-of-date almanac that belonged to...
For many, many years, le reveillon was the way Franco-Americans ushered in New Year’s Day in New England’s Little Canadas. The reveillon...