People still can’t seem to get enough of the Salem witch trials, which remain a mainstay of popular culture more than three...
Once New England had the greatest forests and the tallest trees in the world. They were a major attraction for English colonists...
More than 250 years ago, Robert Rogers wrote 28 rangers rules for guerilla warfare that are still being used by the U.S....
In 1931, 44-year-old Rose Wilder Lane saw a manuscript of a book called Pioneer Girl. It told the story of a homesteader...
On May 14, 1830 Joseph Knapp, Sr., of Wenham, Mass., received a letter from Charles Grant of Belfast, Maine, demanding $350. Otherwise,...
In July 1896, the Herbert Fuller put to sea from Boston with 11 people on board. The barkentine was loaded with lumber,...