The Spirit of 76 reappeared again and again after the American Revolution as an idea, as a symbol and as a propaganda...
In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England would get sick. The...
Chop suey sandwiches have marked the beginning of summer for generations of people who grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts....
Northern New Englanders ran for cover in late October as the 1727 earthquake, more powerful than any they had experienced, shook the...
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
Few criminals built a record as long or as celebrated as Henry Tufts. While history of the colonial era tends to focus...