The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as films about the city just keep coming. George...
As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s...
Puritans considered child-rearing one of their most important duties in life, and it began with the name given to the newborn. Puritan...
Once New England had the greatest forests and the tallest trees in the world. They were a major attraction for English colonists...
The Great Salem Fire of 1914 was one of the last great urban fires of the era. It followed the Portland, Maine,...
The early Puritan settler Thomas Minor may have kept a diary from 1653 to 1684 just to keep track of the days....