Remembering Daniel Webster in Portsmouth
His manner was "lofty and sour," but he had great influence and skill.
Travel Guide to Seacoast NH in 1899
word-for-word from your turn-of-the-20th-century guide to the NH Seacoast.
Declaration Copy Discovered in Exeter Attic
Written on request for SeacoastHistory.com By the American Independence Museum On the night of July 4 (into the wee hours of July 5th) a1776 Philadelphia printer, John Dunlap, printed approximately 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence. The broadside copies were couriered by horseback to …
I Saw the FB-111A Crash in Portsmouth
We asked Mark Chwalek to tell us what he saw in 1981 in his own words
Pierre Blanchard’s First Balloon Over NH in 1796
Historian James L. Garvin recaptures Portsmouth's first aerial phenomenon
Nathaniel Hawthorne: 10-Days at the Isles of Shoals in 1852
Arguably, the most compelling word-picture of life at the Shoals as tourism challenged two centuries of fishing culture
An Introduction to Hawthorne on the Isles of Shoals
Craig Brown paves the way for the must-read 1852 journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sally Wood was First Maine Novelist
Did Dan Brown borrow her Illuminati novel idea?
William Dean Howells Loved Kittery Point
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."--WDH
Who Was William Whipple?
He was in the right room at the right time, one of three NH :signers"
Daniel Fowle Prints First NH Newspaper
Still standing in one form or another since 1756, The NH Gazette