Sam Allen Bought New Hampshire
For a quarter million dollars, he owned it all, or thought he did
What About Seacoast Indigenous Peoples?
We're trying, but 12,000 years of Native history is still often ignored or stereotyped
What Lies Beneath “New Portsmouth”?
A controversial North End hotel dig yields ground-breaking colonial history
Jane Kaufmann: Life Plus Clay
Potter, painter, sculptor, author, satirist, philosopher, etc.
“March of Time” Redefined Broadcast News
Louis de Rochemont newsreels used fakery to dramatize facts
The Lost Interview with Historian Dorothy Vaughan, Part 2
A lost 1969 interview reveals the candid opinions and emotions of the city's original preservationist
Reviving the 1774 Portsmouth Powder Alarm Again
Every decade or two, it's time to raid the fort and remember what it meant
Great Caesar’s Ghost Honored in NH
Vicky Avery reports on the Caesar Brackett burial site in Greenland, NH
Living with the Ghost of Ichabod Goodwin
When your house is haunted by history--write a book about it.
First Blacks of Portsmouth, Part 2
Through the American Revolution and into the 19th century
The Many Doors of Harry Harlow
Historian Richard Candee honors the work of artist Harry Harlow
The Men in “The Tent on the Beach” by Whittier
A beach, a poem, and three writers in a tent in 1867