On July 3, 1916, Lawrence ‘Chubby’ Woodman invented the fried clam – or at least as we know the revered mollusk today. It...
If only all wars could be like the Aroostook War, a boundary dispute fought mostly with fists rather than cannon. The conflict featured...
The New England Christmas started out as an ordinary work day for Puritans who frowned on the papist revelry of their Anglican...
In 1744, Dr. Alexander Hamilton took a long trip to New England for his health. Given the rigors of travel in those...
For nearly 40 years in the early 18th century, Acadian farmers in Canada refused orders to take an unconditional oath of loyalty...
The Back-to-Africa movement began with a wealthy mixed-race Quaker named Paul Cuffe. He brought African-American Bostonians to a Sierra Leone colony in...