The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day. At night they...
To make a claim for the oldest houses in New England inevitably invites controversy. The region has plenty of very old houses,...
In their rigid enforcement of community standards, New England’s Puritan punishments often often included the bilbo, the cleft stick, the brand, the ear...
Like Paul Revere, Sybil Ludington took a midnight ride to warn American patriots the redcoats were coming. They were coming to Danbury,...
Colonists in Boston revolted against a hated English governor 86 years and one day before the the world heard the shot in...
When the Irish famine ships arrived in Boston in the 1840s, tens if not hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Ireland already...