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Those Addictive Daily Newspapers are Making Americans Dumber

by J. Dennis Robinson

Long before TikTok, George Lunt predicted the Penny Press would turn adults into children

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Submerged: Making the USS Squalus Movie

by J. Dennis Robinson

An interview with director Stacey Keach about his close-to-history drama

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Unloved President Franklin Pierce Had Seacoast Connections

by J. Dennis Robinson

NH's only US president was a complex character in a complex time

Read moreUnloved President Franklin Pierce Had Seacoast Connections

Three Beebe Girls Buried at the Isles of Shoals

by J. Dennis Robinson

"I don't want to die," Mitty Beebe told her father.

Read moreThree Beebe Girls Buried at the Isles of Shoals

What Happened to Portsmouth’s North End?

by J. Dennis Robinson

A neighborhood destroyed and largely undeveloped for 50 years

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Henry Tufts Wrote our First Criminal Autobiography

by J. Dennis Robinson

"The Autobiography of a Thief" is a rare trip into 1700s underworld

Read moreHenry Tufts Wrote our First Criminal Autobiography

Historian Survives the Battle of San Diego Bay

by J. Dennis Robinson

Privateer Lynx and the Californian lock horns in mock combat

Read moreHistorian Survives the Battle of San Diego Bay

I Crawled Inside the Crumbling Monument

by J. Dennis Robinson

It was a wreck waiting to happen when preservationists stepped up

Read moreI Crawled Inside the Crumbling Monument

The First Perilous Voyage of Privateer Lynx

by J. Dennis Robinson

The 80-ton, $3 million ship inched toward the Goose River Bridge, which had collapsed in 1946

Read moreThe First Perilous Voyage of Privateer Lynx

Top 10 Seacoast Natural Disasters

by J. Dennis Robinson

Hard weather, pestilence, earthquake, lightning, fire, and more

Read moreTop 10 Seacoast Natural Disasters

Portsmouth Tries, Fails at Whaling

by J. Dennis Robinson

Unique research from "Heavy Weather and Hard Luck" by Kenneth Martin

Read morePortsmouth Tries, Fails at Whaling

1886 Ice Storm Photos Frozen in Time

by J. Dennis Robinson

Victorians didn't miss electricity or wi-fi but worried about the symmetry of damaged shade trees

Read more1886 Ice Storm Photos Frozen in Time
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