The American Revolution in 1780 didn’t stop Harvard professor Samuel Williams from venturing behind British lines in Maine to observe a total...
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
The oldest public high schools in the United States all stand in New England, probably because the Puritans believed in educating children...
Northern New Englanders ran for cover in late October as the 1727 earthquake, more powerful than any they had experienced, shook the...
People still can’t seem to get enough of the Salem witch trials, which remain a mainstay of popular culture more than three...
Once New England had the greatest forests and the tallest trees in the world. They were a major attraction for English colonists...