The mystery of why Alice Bishop cut her four-year-old daughter’s throat in Plymouth Colony still lingers 370 years later. Alice didn’t deny...
Most school children know the story of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, but few know that he went to jail for murder....
Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
Today the remnants of the colonial Dutch in New England are pretty much limited to the region’s outer rim: At Smith’s Castle...
On the wooded grounds of an old monastery in Cumberland, R.I., a pile of stones stands next to a cement pillar with...
Merrie Old England used to spend Sunday afternoons the way we do now: enjoying sports. King James actually encouraged his subjects to...