With friends like Richard Cutts, James Madison didn’t need enemies. Though Cutts was the rare New Englander who supported Mr. Madison’s War,...
Col. Tobias Lear V, known as Toby to his friends, left his mark on the early history of the United States as...
What is so appealing about abandoned places? Cyberspace abounds with photos, videos and bloggers waxing elegiac about abandoned old mills, mansions and...
Among the more charming tales circulated about Portsmouth, N.H., is the marriage of Nicholas Rousselet to Catherine Elizabeth Moffatt in 1786. Betsy,...
J.P. Morgan, the Gilded Age’s most powerful and feared financiers, had an Achilles heel – or nose, rather. He became so rich...
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...