Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th century. Small, utilitarian buildings, they usually lacked plumbing...
Harvard University got off to a rough start in 1638, when Nathaniel Eaton and his wife led such a reign of terror...
You didn’t have to show courage in battle to be a revolutionary hero. But if you were, it probably took more than...
In February 1788, George Washington was staying close to home at Mount Vernon, anxiously awaiting news from New Hampshire. The state’s constitutional...
In the middle of December 1774, messengers on horseback carried news to the people of New Hampshire’s seacoast. Two British warships were...