Rebekah Harkness spent much of the Standard Oil fortune she inherited on the ballet. Not just going to performances, but sponsoring entire...
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
Skull and Bones, Yale University’s most famous and most secret society, has inspired sinister conspiracy theories since its founding in 1832. Some...
In 1728, Royal Governor William Dummer arrived in Massachusetts with nine ‘goffe clubs,’ but it would be another 150 years before golf...
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...