David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
Boston riots during the 18th century happened so often you could have called the town Riot City. Between 1700 and 1764, 28...
With Mother’s Day soon upon us, it’s a good time for a reminder about heroic moms. For much of New England history,...
Rhode Island’s Governor Samuel Cranston won election as Rhode Island’s governor 30 times, once twice in one year. No other governor surpassed...
On the wooded grounds of an old monastery in Cumberland, R.I., a pile of stones stands next to a cement pillar with...
Humphrey Atherton had far more power and influence than the Quakers he persecuted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s. At...