Native-American slavery began almost as soon as English colonists arrived in Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay. The earliest records date...
The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett started the first scandal in Greenwich, Conn., over – what else? – infidelity and real estate. The...
For four centuries, the West Indies have made an outsized impact on New England. In 2018, West Indian stars and a West...
Many New England cities and towns have been renamed over the years. When the European settlers arrived, they usually changed Indian names...
Springfield, Mass., and the rest of Western Massachusetts, might well belong to Connecticut today if William Pynchon had not decided to leave...