Philander Chase brought the infant Episcopal Church to America’s frontier and founded one of the country’s finest liberal arts colleges in what was then wilderness. Chase was descended from Aquila …

In 1704, Mohawk Indians raided the frontier town of Deerfield, Mass. They captured local pastor John Williams, along with his family. Most of the family (those who didn’t die in …

Molasses played such a starring role in the colonial New England Thanksgiving that a shortage of it in 1705 forced Colchester, Conn., to postpone the holiday for a week. The …

The Gay Head Wampanoag Indians lived on Martha’s Vineyard for thousands of years, and for the last 400 they never gave up trying to keep their land and remain a …

New England farmers in the 19th century fell prey to a vampire panic. They thought the dead rose from the grave to drain the life from their living families. And …

[jpshare]Growing up on a farm in West Brookfield, Mass., Lucy Stone resented her father’s iron control over the income her mother earned from selling eggs and cheese. Stone channeled that …