Portsmouth Dressed Up and Partied in 1923
The tercentennial Pageant of Portsmouth was a full-on tribute to the city's history
Repairing Sir Peter Warren
Who was that man in the giant portrait at the Portsmouth Athenaeum?
How Massachusetts Almost Ate New Hampshire
"New Hampshire was only a pimple," said the late Jere Daniells, but the Puritans wanted it badly.
Portsmouth Herald Seeks Its Own Birth Date
Who, what, when, why, and how did it all begin? We may never know.
Five Reasons to Skate at Puddle Dock
It was as if it had always belonged there
Submerged: Making the USS Squalus Movie
An interview with director Stacey Keach about his close-to-history drama
The Ballad of the Squalus
From seacoast singer-songwriter John Perrault
Seacoast Black Heroes
Celebrating African figures from our local history as we learn their stories
The Day the River Exploded
Even John Paul Jones would be pleased, one newspaper reported.
Unraveling the 1694 Murder of Ursula Cutt
What do two carved "putti" have to do with the murder of the wife of NH's first governor?
When Playwrights Play With Local History
Actors playing real people inside the homes where they used to live.
What Does “Piscataqua” Mean?
The Oxford English Dictionary is the wrong place to look