Our Two-party System was Forged in Even Angrier Times
1795 obelisk is a reminder of divisive politics after the Revolution
What George Washington Thought about Seacoast NH
The president comments on five days in New Hampshire in 1789
Keeping Up with Thomas Jefferson
Turning saints back into humans is a righteous act.
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Enslaved Runaway Ona Judge Staines
An amazing story of courage and defiance in 1796 by history researcher Evelyn Gerson.
John Paul Jones in Portsmouth
250 years later, we're still talking about his visit
Motoring in the Dust of George Washington
A 1916 version of Washington's 1789 tour from New York to New Hampshire
What Lies Beneath “New Portsmouth”?
A controversial North End hotel dig yields ground-breaking colonial history
Reviving the 1774 Portsmouth Powder Alarm Again
Every decade or two, it's time to raid the fort and remember what it meant
Great Caesar’s Ghost Honored in NH
Vicky Avery reports on the Caesar Brackett burial site in Greenland, NH
First Blacks of Portsmouth, Part 2
Through the American Revolution and into the 19th century
Folsom Tavern Has a Moving History
A dozen uses later, Exeter's historic tavern is a museum at last
Declaration Copy Discovered in Exeter Attic
Written on request for SeacoastHistory.com By the American Independence Museum On the night of July 4 (into the wee hours of July 5th) a1776 Philadelphia printer, John Dunlap, printed approximately 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence. The broadside copies were couriered by horseback to …