In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
The story of Maine statehood is also the story of a province and a people exploited by absentee owners and left defenseless...
Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become president of the confederate states during the Civil War, was no stranger...
New England films number in the hundreds since the turn of the last century, partly because the region provides such rich material...
Titicut Follies exposed the sordid and cruel treatment of prisoners in 1966 at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater,...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...