Though people usually think of the quintessential New England house as a white clapboard farmhouse or Cape, we actually have quite a...
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...
When the Great September Gale struck New England in the fall of 1815, few could remember the last time such a devastating...
On Feb. 28, 1638, the slave trade probably began in New England when a ship arrived in Massachusetts Bay from the West...
Ever since a Bostonian won the first event in the first modern Olympics, New England has sent more than its share of...
The oldest bank in a state isn’t necessarily the first one chartered. Banks have had their difficulties over the years and many...