On Aug. 1, 1761, three teenaged Mohawk boys arrived on horseback at Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. Two, Nickus...
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1711, the York County coroner was summoned to examine a frozen body discovered in a...
In 1820 at the age of 78, Thompson Maxwell rode his horse more than 1,600 miles from Detroit to New England and...
During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...