On Sept. 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill made their way back from Montreal to their home in Portsmouth, N.H., after a...
If New Hampshire’s Samuel Thomson had been George Washington’s doctor, America’s first president might well have lived another 10 years. Calomel was...
Phineas Gage was a foreman on a railroad crew working in Vermont and New Hampshire in September 1848 when an iron rod...
Doctors were scarce in early New England, and the colonists had to make do with home remedies. Some home remedies they learned...
Hurricane Carol, one of the worst to hit New England, was so ferocious the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retired the name...
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She kept her now-famous diary...