Captain John Hull made frequent trips between America and England as early as the 1680s. He ran a profitable line of ships...
When Dutch elm disease first appeared in southwestern Connecticut, horrified New Englanders responded immediately to save their beloved elms, state agriculture experts...
“The Weirs” on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, has been a popular summer resort since shortly after the last Ice Age, when the...
In 1874, Jesse Pomeroy was sentenced to death for murdering at least two children. For the next 50 years America was fascinated...
Swing bandleader Glenn Miller was born in Iowa, grew up in the Midwest, got famous in New York City, lived in New...
In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...
Narragansett beer survived Prohibition, but it couldn’t escape the government. Not because government agents tried to shut down the brewery during Prohibition,...
On the night of Nov. 14, 1917, 63-year-old Mrs. John Winters Brannan wrapped herself in her heavy sealskin coat to protect herself...
The Portsmouth Fires That Turned the City to Brick
Dutch Elm Disease, the Nightmare on Elm Street
How New England Invented Grandparents
How John Singleton Copley Painted John Adams’ World
The Real People Behind Little Women
How the Jewish Immigrants Came to New England
Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Discovery Acknowledged
What the Insider’s Guide to Colleges in New England Said in 1972
A Daughter of the Puritans Leads a Life of Secret Terror
