In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
You might suppose the Federal Reserve banking system was begun in response to the great stock market crash of 1929, but it...
In February 1788, George Washington was staying close to home at Mount Vernon, anxiously awaiting news from New Hampshire. The state’s constitutional...
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
Identifying the largest historic districts in New England was no easy task, as the region has so many collections of historic buildings,...
The evolution of New England laws from religious based findings toward secular Common Law was a gradual affair, and it took a...