NEW ENGLAND

This region includes; Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.

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Connecticut Farmhouse

How is this Connecticut farmhouse connected to the assassination of a Russian tsar?...More

Jigsaw Puzzle

Were women playing contact sports in the late part of the 19th century?...More

John Adams Book

Do these tattered pages open the book on a President who built a nation even as his own son fell into ruin?...More

Lawrence Billy Club

Could this billy club with the words “Lawrence Strike” and the date 12/1/1912 really have been used in the famous Bread and Roses labor strike?...More

Lucy Parsons Book

Was the legendary anarchist the owner of this manifesto found in a library?...More

Monroe Letter

Does this letter link America's fifth President to the high seas piracy of U.S. merchant ships in the early 1800s?...More

Newport U-Boat

Two Boston brothers have heard a rumor that two large propellers on the grounds of a hotel in Newport originally came from a German submarine that sank off the coast of Rhode Island at the end of WWII...More

Nora Holt Autograph Book

Why did this Harlem Renaissance luminary own a book bearing the signatures of Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge?...More

Revolutionary War Cannon

A Boston woman is fascinated by an old cannon, kept in a local national park storage facility...More

USS Thresher

How are these documents connected to a nuclear submarine, which sank with all hands during the height of the Cold War?...More

Whaling Ship

Might a whaling ship docked in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut hold secrets to the Underground Railroad?...More

Witch's House

Could a house in Essex County, Massachusetts, have once belonged to an accused witch?...More

Women's Suffrage Painting

What role did this watercolor painting play in securing women the right to vote?... More