It will probably be several centuries before the Northeast United States again suffers anything like the 1965 drought. It was the driest...
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
The history of New England’s post roads and their stagecoach stops mirror the history of the country. The roads date back to...
Few criminals built a record as long or as celebrated as Henry Tufts. While history of the colonial era tends to focus...
When the 18th Amendment to the Constitution took effect on January 17, 1920, New England’s taverns suddenly became speakeasies. Law enforcement couldn’t...
Rhode Island’s Col. William Barton seized his place in history in July of 1777 when he slipped into Middletown, R.I. He passed more...