The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....
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The author of Over the River and Through the Wood was very unlike the other author who wrote a favorite holiday song...
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
In 1858, young men from Hartford, Conn., organized bodyguards for Republican candidates campaigning through the streets of the Democratic city. They called...
George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement...
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There is, in fact, gold in seawater. And that is the kernel of truth...
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As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their...
A jury convicted Styles Bridges, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, of attempting to...
The chance to board the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic was too great...
To get an idea of the how intense the feuding between the British loyalists...
John Cheever, the sadly elegant chronicler of New England WASPdom, spent a year working...
New York Harbor -- September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall...
On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper...
Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the...
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings...
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the...
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most...
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last...
The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance...
The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as...
New England high school football rivalries go back to the days when teams traveled...
Around the turn of the 20th century, a terrifying new kind of immigrant arrived...
If something called a black cake sounds like a perfect Christmas sweet from a...
Poor old Connecticut, invaded every day by thousands of Noo Yawkers and Bahstonians. Those...
Does your holiday shopping list have a history lover on it? Check out these...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most Armenians immigrated to New England...
How New England Invented Grandparents
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The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 Unleashes Terror on an Unsuspecting Town
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Black Cake, A Christmas Treat Emily Dickinson Loved To Bake
How To Talk With a Boston Accent (Not for the Faint of Haht)
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The Branded Hand of Jonathan Walker: Emblem of Slave Stealing or Slave Savior?
Robert Roberts Tells All – About How To Be a House Servant in 1827
