During those confusing, intense first weeks of the American Revolution, Prudence Cummings Wright organized a ladies group — to capture Loyalist spies...
To make a claim for the oldest houses in New England inevitably invites controversy. The region has plenty of very old houses,...
In 1745, William Pepperrell led an expedition to Acadia that stunned the French government. The French king, Louis XV, ordered the Duc...
New England’s early colonists paid a great deal of attention to death and funerals. Many people attended colonial funerals, and would think...
The story of the Rev. Joseph Moody, who preached with a handkerchief over his face, was too good for Nathaniel Hawthorne to...