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The Flip Side of Tom Bergeron

by J. Dennis Robinson

Long before Dancing with the Stars Tom was the dj on late night WHEB

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The Morning Star: Dover’s Antislavery Newspaper

by Guest Author

Dover historian Ed Wentworth recounts a Free Will Baptist struggle

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FW Hartford Founded Portsmouth Herald

by Guest Author

His influence on the city is hard to underestimate. Feature by John Tabor.

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Raymond Brighton, the Feisty Historian

by Guest Author

Publisher Peter E. Randall remembers a prolific history columnist

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Sumner Winebaum: A Sculptor’s Story

by J. Dennis Robinson

The many careers of the late, great Sumner Winebaum

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The Lost Newspapers of 1777

by J. Dennis Robinson

The author digs through Revolutionar War newspapers in search of John Paul Jones

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The 1892 Siege of Cedar Island

by J. Dennis Robinson

Shoaler news ripped from the pages of the Boston Globe

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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

Read moreThose Addictive Daily Newspapers are Making Americans Dumber

Portsmouth Herald Seeks Its Own Birth Date

by J. Dennis Robinson

Who, what, when, why, and how did it all begin? We may never know.

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The “Bad Boy” Book Genre was Born Here

by J. Dennis Robinson

A "human boy" BP Shillaber theorized, needs to find his own way to adulthood without parental interference

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How and Why We Buried a Time Capsule in 1998

by J. Dennis Robinson

Portsmouth 375th was a bland affair, but we did our best

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Primus Fowle Ran the First NH Printing Press

by J. Dennis Robinson

We have only snippets of Fowle's biography, all from white writers

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