As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s...
Before the Italian-American community (much to the chagrin of many) was branded as the face of organized crime, Irish Americans had their...
Many New England cities and towns have been renamed over the years. When the European settlers arrived, they usually changed Indian names...
In 1844, young people of Massachusetts were treated to a new board game: Pope and Pagan, or Siege of the stronghold of...
In 1884, a French parish in Fall River, Mass., locked its Irish pastor out of the church and made his life a...
The New England roots of W.E.B. Du Bois shaped his thought and his activism, and led to his rise as a leading...