Eileen Farrell spent five years starring on the Metropolitan Opera stage, but she was too salt-of-the earth to put up with the...
Molasses played such a starring role in the colonial New England Thanksgiving that a shortage of it in 1705 forced Colchester, Conn.,...
New England farmers in the 19th century fell prey to the belief that vampires stalked their families. They thought the dead rose...
On Oct. 2, 1780, British intelligence officer John Andre met his awful fate with courage, much as his American counterpart Nathan Hale...
Today’s Flashback Photo is a picture of the dredge Governor Warfield working on the Cape Cod Canal in 1914. The Canal opened...
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...