More than 50 people died in the Christmas blizzard of 1909, a two-day storm with disastrous effects from Pennsylvania to Canada. The...
The story of Maine statehood is also the story of a province and a people exploited by absentee owners and left defenseless...
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
The privateers that raided shipping off the New England coast in the War of 1812 were the gladiators of their day. Wealth,...
Growing up in Hull, Mass., Joshua James saw more than his share of shipwrecks. One in particular sent him on a lifelong...
Fishing the Georges Bank has always been a dangerous job taken on by the Gloucester fishing fleet of Cape Ann, Mass., but...