In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
The Londonderry Scots-Irish saved New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by multiplying along the border and fighting the town across from it....
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore Irish history. After all, many people of Irish...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
The oldest public high schools in the United States all stand in New England, probably because the Puritans believed in educating children...
The history of New England’s post roads and their stagecoach stops mirror the history of the country. The roads date back to...