Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionaries imprisoned in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death –...
It’s a rich man’s world. It was as true in the 1700s as it is today, and there were plenty of colorful...
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire on Aug. 1, 1944, eluding a manhunt...