Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become president of the confederate states during the Civil War, was no stranger...
In August 1754, Susannah Johnson gave birth to a daughter in the Vermont wilderness during a forced march by her Indian captors....
In the years before World War I, New England’s iconic triple decker brought thousands of immigrants into the middle class. Triple deckers...
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
The Indian trails that crisscrossed New England go back to prehistoric times. Native Americans migrated from summer to winter homes along the...
In 1803, one of the first New England canals made Boston the undisputed commercial center of New England. Called ‘the Incredible Ditch,’...