New England has a rich Irish history, and it isn’t all about the Great Hunger and the Kennedys. Today, New England is...
The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
The story of Maine statehood is also the story of a province and a people exploited by absentee owners and left defenseless...
Rhode Island’s Governor Samuel Cranston won election as Rhode Island’s governor 30 times, twice in one year. No other governor surpassed Cranston’s...
Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett started the first scandal in Greenwich, Conn., over – what else? – infidelity and real estate. The...
New England’s Gun Valley began with George Washington, who in 1777 scouted the site on an old Puritan muster ground in Springfield,...
A 13-year-old son of a French baron named Jean-Vincent d’Abaddie de Saint-Castin arrives in Maine in 1665 to quell the Iroquois and...
6 Fun Facts About Maple Syrup (and Sugar, too)
The History of Epidemics in New England
The Portsmouth Fires That Turned the City to Brick
Major Alfred Little: The Unsung Melodeonist
Rhode Island’s Plymouth Rock—Well, Almost
How John Singleton Copley Painted John Adams’ World
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
