Raymond Brighton, the Feisty Historian
Publisher Peter E. Randall remembers a prolific history writer
Sumner Winebaum: A Sculptor’s Story
The many careers of the late, great Sumner Winebaum
The Lost Newspapers of 1777
The author digs through Revolutionar War newspapers in search of John Paul Jones
Those Addictive Daily Newspapers are Making Americans Dumber
Long before TikTok, George Lunt predicted the Penny Press would turn adults into children
Portsmouth Herald Seeks Its Own Birth Date
Who, what, when, why, and how did it all begin? We may never know.
The “Bad Boy” Book Genre was Born Here
A "human boy" BP Shillaber theorized, needs to find his own way to adulthood without parental interference
How and Why We Buried a Time Capsule in 1998
Portsmouth 375th was a bland affair, but we did our best
Primus Fowle Ran the First NH Printing Press
We have only snippets of Fowle's biography, all from white writers
Edward Warren Clark was a Magic Lantern Man
Almost forgotten travel lecturer projected the world on the wall
Poet Foss Spoke for the Common Man
Not just a one-hit-wonder poet, but a gifted and comic poet
Inside My Media Morgue
Everybody thought we needed a new magazine, but nobody wanted to buy it
Lincoln Fans Trash Copperhead Newspaper Office in 1865
Editor Joshua Foster hated Abraham Lincoln. And he was not alone.