Portsmouth Rewrote Its Past in a Tavern in 1652
Was this a despicable act or a clever plan that saved Portsmouth from outside forces?
The Shameful Fame of Blackface Entertainment
NH not immune from what Frederick Douglass called "the filthy scum of white society"
Good News from Reverend Gooding
Unitarian minister loved people, Portsmouth, and the past
When Presidents Come to Portsmouth
From the celebrated arrival of George Washington, half of America's presidents have stopped in Portsmouth, NH
John Albee: Confessions of a New Castle Historian
Albee's obscure memoir, "Confessions of Boyhood," is now among my favorite books.
A Hasty History of Prescott Park
My brief overview created for the Prescott Park Arts Festival
Did NH Founders Bank on a Backchannel to the Great Lakes?
Historian Charles Deane suggests Portsmouth investors hope to do an end-run around French fur traders at the Great Lakes.
Maude Trefethen: 51 Years in First Grade
She never met a child she didn't like
Four Centuries of Disappearing Cod
Shrinking fish size and shrinking fish stocks from the arrival of European fishers
Exhibition Illuminates Edmund C. Tarbell’s Legacy
Bringing the seacoast's premiere painter back to life
Rickover Reacts to USS Thresher Tragedy in 1963
Controversial admiral visits Portsmouth after 129 perish in nuclear submarine
John Elwyn: Portsmouth’s Eccentric Scholar
What to do with your life when you don't have to do anything