Currier & Ives produced thousands of hand-colored lithographs that together create a panorama of the mid-19th century. The firm got its start...
The history of New England’s post roads and their stagecoach stops mirror the history of the country. The roads date back to...
A snowstorm raged for a full day in Downeast Maine on March 13, 1853, when at sundown the winds suddenly grew calm....
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...