The Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857 prostrated New England during the winter of 1856-57, one of the worst ever. Thirty-two...
During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
Back in the day, products were made in New England — a lot of products. The early cod fishermen and Yankee traders...
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...
Charles Goodyear might have live out his life as an obscure hardware store owner if the Great India Rubber Panic never took...