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
Spencer Tracy Steers the Mayflower in 1952
Romance and a possible suicide aboard the Hollywood Mayflower in 1952
Two Monuments Honor the Man Who Named New England
Dueling John Smith Monuments on Star Island and Rye Harbor in 2014
York Indian Legend Has Canadian Origin?
Sometimes a myth turns out to be a fact
A Quick History of the Isles of Shoals
400 years in a nutshell for those new to the Isles of Shoals
How Massachusetts Almost Ate New Hampshire
"New Hampshire was only a pimple," said the late Jere Daniells, but the Puritans wanted it badly.
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?
What Does “Piscataqua” Mean?
The Oxford English Dictionary is the wrong place to look
Demystifying Witchcraft in Portsmouth, New Castle, Hampton, and Salem
Replace the word "witch" with the word "terrorist" and you can see things haven't changed
Keys to Finding the First New Hampshire House
Despite new research, much of our early historians were wrong
Why John Smith Never Came Back to New England
If three times you don't succeed -- give up and write another book