In the early 1600s, the Anglican Church was under criticism from all manner of dissenters offering a wide variety of opinions on...
In the spring of 1636, Lucy Downing wrote a letter from England to her older brother, John Winthrop, six years after he...
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
Everyone knows that stone walls cover the New England landscape like honeycombs. But far fewer people know about the region’s hundreds of...
John Winthrop famously wrote in his journal that the Arbella departed for the New World on Easter Monday – March 29, 1630....
Irish landmarks commemorate the history of Irish immigrants in places you might not expect throughout New England. There’s more to Irish-American history...