John Margolies in 1970 caused a stir, and not a good one, in highbrow architectural citcles. He did it by putting on...
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
Before New England gave the world Howard Johnson’s, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald’s and Subway, it invented the Waldorf Lunch. The Waldorf Lunch System...
In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
In 1824, several hundred white people tore down about 20 homes occupied by black people in a mixed neighborhood called Hardscrabble in...
Once New Englanders decided to save the historic Old South Meeting House in 1876, they began to preserve other kinds of historic...