The year 1620 is well known as the date the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, but 1640 is less well-known as the year...
Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become president of the confederate states during the Civil War, was no stranger...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
In the winter of 1755, two Marshfield, Mass., selectmen knocked on the door of the Michel family, seven Acadian exiles. They brought...
When the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they brought with them two dogs described as a spaniel and a mastiff....
Visit the South Shore of Massachusetts and you won’t have much doubt about why people call it the Irish Riviera. Orange-and-green flags...