‘What Hath God Wrought?’ With those words, the invention known as the telegraph was first put into use in a transmission from...
William Tudor fell in love with a loyalist. It was an awkward position for a rebel who would become the first judge...
Much about Matthew Lyon of Fair Haven, Vt., is unclear, but one thing is certain. He started the first congressional brawl on...
The New England Flying Santa tradition was born in the teeth of a fierce winter storm when lighthouse beacons along Penobscot Bay...
The Concord Coach might have been called the Lexington Wagon had Lewis Downing decided against visiting his fiancee in New Hampshire. A...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper burial. His name is Fortune, and his journey...