During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
In 1930, Varick Frissell traveled north to Canada to make the deadliest movie ever. Twenty-six people would die in the filming, including...
In 1876, a British dandy whose real name was Adam Worth stole Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, from Junius Morgan, who planned...
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
As early as 1735, residents living along the New Hampshire-Vermont border reported a New Hampshire volcano erupted violently. The inhabitants of Fort...
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...