Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
Charles Shay, a 19-year-old Penobscot, landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Under heavy German fire, he bandaged the wounded and pulled drowning...
Identifying New England’s oldest libraries is no easy task. In the early days of European settlement, book collections took many different forms....
The Penobscot Expedition during the American Revolution was the worst naval disaster in American history until Pearl Harbor. That a huge force...
Revolutionary War battlefields abound in New England, where, after all, the whole thing began. The patriots fought the British in every colony...