Roosevelt Used Paul Jones’ Body to Pitch His Great White Fleet
Only those who wanted a bigger Navy were fit to be in the room with Captain Jones, the president claimed
When Portsmouth Changed Its Name
A New Hampshire town "accidentally" named Strawberry Bank
Portsmouth Staged “No Kings” Play in 1778 Despite Theater Ban
Poet Jonathan Mitchel Sewall compared Roman Senator Cato to Washington
Gentle Ghosts of Daniel Street
The old cart path connecting the river to Market Square is about to change.
Three Women Hanged in Portsmouth
NH’s first two executions rarely discussed, still troubling
Is This Really Lady Wentworth?
Martha Hilton Wentworth Wentworth was her name
Sing Along with Frank Jones Brewery Song
Rare printed campaign lyrics claim that Jones Ale drives away all pain
Frank Jones is Dying, But Slowly
A premature eulogy from the New York Times
The Portsmouth Plot to Annex New Castle
New Castle rebuffs offer to be absorbed by its big sister
The 1892 Siege of Cedar Island
Shoaler news ripped from the pages of the Boston Globe
The Candidates at the Fair
Sam Walter Foss tackles local politicans again
Waging Peace in the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
A nail biting month of negotiations between Russia and Japan