Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...
In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England got sick. The Great...
As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...