NEW ENGLAND

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

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Jigsaw Puzzle

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

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