New England films number in the hundreds since the turn of the last century, partly because the region provides such rich material...
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
General stores had their heyday between 1820 and 1860, when income was rising and the population was growing. Like the Hope General...
Construction started on the City of Rockland at East Boston’s McKie Shipbuilding Company in 1900. By 1901 she sailed regular runs up...
Nathanael Greene had asthma, walked with a pronounced limp and belonged to the pacifist Quaker religion. None of that stopped him from...
The dirty novel Peyton Place landed like a bombshell in 1956, a surprise hit by an unknown author. The critics panned it, the...