New England has a rich Irish history, and it isn’t all about the Great Hunger and the Kennedys. Today, New England is...
In 1875, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the state police department. It was only 10 years old, the first state police force...
Sixty-three years before the Boston Tea Party, outraged men launched a nighttime attack on a ship belonging to Andrew Belcher in Boston...
Martin Luther King spent plenty of time in New England, and not just giving speeches about civil rights. He worked in Connecticut...
News was slow to reach Maine in 1766, and it cost William King dearly. The Maine Stamp Act Riot of 1766 targeted...
In 1834 a group of New Hampshire abolitionists decided to establish a school for black students. At first, Noyes Academy seemed relatively...