During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
The privateers that raided shipping off the New England coast in the War of 1812 were the gladiators of their day. Wealth,...
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
Revolutionary War battlefields abound in New England, where, after all, the whole thing began. The patriots fought the British in every colony...
On Dec. 13, 1774, Paul Revere rode to Portsmouth, N.H., to warn the redcoats were coming. It was a much less famous...
Frank Weston Benson painted everything from duck stamps to Library of Congress murals, but he is most beloved for his sunny outdoor...