The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
What better way to take in New England’s fall foliage than a historic train ride? There’s no danger of running off the...
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
On Sept. 7, 1881, Boston’s temperature hit 102 degrees, but New Englanders breathed a sigh of relief because the latest yellow day...
Before Frederick Douglass became the most influential African-American of the 19th century, he took a long, frightening journey to freedom on the...