On Aug. 1, 1761, three teenaged Mohawk boys arrived on horseback at Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. Two, Nickus...
In 1830 and 1831, a 12-year-old Maryland slave and a 22-year-old backwoods store clerk picked up the same book – the Columbian...
Though people usually think of the quintessential New England house as a white clapboard farmhouse or Cape, we actually have quite a...
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th century. Small, utilitarian buildings, they usually lacked plumbing...
Bob Dylan returned to some of his most important roots in 1975 when he came to Massachusetts, particularly Cambridge and Lowell, with...
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...