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 …

William Miller famously led thousands of people on a religious wild goose chase in 1844 that ended only when (to his followers’ disappointment) the world did not end. If Miller …

More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper burial. His name is Fortune, and his journey to this point starkly illustrates the timeline of …