Why George Savary Wasson Still Matters
Artist, carver, author, boat builder, writer, but Wasson just wanted to be one of the guys
Piccola: The Lost Christmas Classic of Celia Thaxter
includes a BONUS study guide on "Little Piccola"
Primus Fowle Ran the First NH Printing Press
We have only snippets of Fowle's biography, all from white writers
Experts Agree: First NH State House Not Worth Reconstructing
After decades of planning, studies show the remaining timbers are too far gone
How We Got Soldiers and Sailors Monument
The miraculous new “white bronze” turned out to be a poor investment.
I Crawled Inside the Crumbling Monument
It was a wreck waiting to happen when preservationists stepped up
NH Jewish Community Deeply Rooted in Portsmouth
Portsmouth is home to New Hampshire’s oldest active synagogue.
Edward Warren Clark was a Magic Lantern Man
Almost forgotten travel lecturer projected the world on the wall
Did NH Governor John Langdon Enslave Workers?
Although his family enslaved farm workers, John leaned toward Abolitionism
The First Perilous Voyage of Privateer Lynx
The 80-ton, $3 million ship inched toward the Goose River Bridge, which had collapsed in 1946
Short on Cash? Print Your Own
More on the "scrip" business by historian Kevin LaFond
How Harvard Helped Portsmouth and Vice Versa
The Wentworths were Harvard boys and they were just the beginning