It will probably be several centuries before the Northeast United States again suffers anything like the 1965 drought. It was the driest...
Early American history is inextricably linked with maritime history, and there’s no better way to get a feel for it than to...
Everyone knows about historic New England places like the Freedom Trail or Robert Frost’s Farm. But the New England Historical Society can...
In 1984, 20 volumes of 5,000 letters by an 18th-century feminist were discovered in Natchez, Miss. Judith Sargent Murray wrote them, having...
A snowball fight among Continental Army soldiers threatened to get ugly during the Siege of Boston until George Washington intervened. It was...
Childe Hassam liked to paint without his shirt on, and sometimes beat his chest while at work. He was fun, energetic and...