What was it about Ellen Robbins that inspired people to play practical jokes on her? She made a good living as a...
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
The oldest lighthouse in the country would have been in New England had the British not blown it up during the American...
New England’s fall foliage inspires so much imagery we were pretty sure we could find six autumn paintings of New England. Then...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...