A recent article in the New York Times magazine describing the difficulty of applying international law’s definition of ...

With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...

Together with Portsmouth, Exeter and Hampton, these early settlements became a royal province in 1679, existing under the ...

American officer Benedict Arnold met in secret with British Major John Andre on Sept. 21, 1780, with a plot to trade the American stronghold at West Point for cash amid the American Revolution.

William Blaxton, an eccentric loner and Anglican minister, settled Boston before the Puritans and Rhode Island before Roger ...

Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 and was the first English permanent settlement in America. It has been the subject ...

Domesticated apples made their passage to the New England colonies from England and eventually made their way into golden, flaky pie crusts. And with this marriage of ingredients, the sweet allure ...

In many long years on the New England coast, I have noticed patterns ... evolving as the landscape evolved and continuing today. The American Colonies, especially in their infant years, relied ...

At the end of the 16th century, Spain and Portugal dominated the South American continent and parts of the Caribbean. They had also gotten a foothold in Central America and the southern portions ...

The American Colonies in 1776 took their stand upon ... starvation in a single country as the whole population of Canada, New England, and the city and state of New York, or nearly half as many ...

More than 50 tables of dealers buying and selling cards and memorabilia. Proceeds benefit homeless children. 3-8 p.m. Sept.