In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and...
Quaker persecution began in Massachusetts in July 1656 as soon as the first two Quakers sailed into Boston Harbor. Mary Fisher and...
The first Boston Light stood as a beacon in Boston Harbor for 60 years until the British blew it up in 1776....
Angela Puleo was one of thousands of Italian immigrants stigmatized as enemy aliens by the government during World War II . Two...
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
On Aug. 1, 1944, German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding a manhunt...