For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government – a borough, of which nine currently survive....
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore Irish history. After all, many people of Irish...
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact,...
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one knew for sure whether it would even survive....
Jubilee Jim Fisk liked to live large – too large for his own good. He rose from humble beginnings in Vermont to...
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of the Revolutionary era. They also resulted in the...