Louisa May Alcott, Civil War nurse, was 500 miles from her home in Concord, Mass., alone, doing painful duties all day long...
On Jan. 2, 1788, John Quincy Adams was a 20-year-old Harvard graduate studying law with Theophilus Parsons in Newburyport, Mass. As a...
On New Year’s Eve 1775, Caleb Haskell was lucky to be recovering from smallpox in a house miles from the Battle of...
The New England Christmas started out as an ordinary work day for Puritans who frowned on the papist revelry of their Anglican...
There was nothing like a shipment of white pine Maine timbers from the New England colonies to cheer up a British Royal...
Capt. Thomas Kemble was a prominent ship’s captain in the 1650s in Massachusetts, but that didn’t stop him from getting into trouble...