During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...
In October of 1774, Benjamin Edes and John Gill printed a letter that told of a startling sight in Bridgewater in the...
The American Revolution looked much different through British eyes than it did to the rebels who claimed to fight for liberty and...
In June of 1775, with the Battle of Bunker Hill over, George Washington badly needed gunpowder. Rhode Island’s Abraham Whipple accepted a...
Those quarrelsome publishers just love to argue over the honor of being the oldest newspaper in the United States. But which one...
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...