For many, many years, le reveillon was the way Franco-Americans ushered in New Year’s Day in New England’s Little Canadas. The reveillon...
As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...
James Healy, born a slave, became the Roman Catholic bishop of Portland and founder of the Diocese of Manchester in the late...
New England has given countless military heroes to the United States of America over its history. Their heroism took many different forms....
Integrating Major League baseball was just one of the challenges facing Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ great second baseman. Buying a house...
When William Scott of Groton, Vt., signed up to fight for the Union at the start of the Civil War, the eager,...