One of the best botanical gardens in the U.S. for 2025 is in Maine, according to USA today readers in the 2025 10Best Readers ...

Does history repeat itself? Or does it rhyme? WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight books that remind ...

In her debut novel, Swedish pop star Annika Norlin spins a tale about a woman who, like Thoreau, seeks a simple life away from the distractions of her former existence ...

Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...

New England Puritans were hard-pressed by Native American warriors who knew how to fight in forests—and now had flintlock ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

As tensions grew between American colonists and the British crown, the strategic importance of the largest, wealthiest colony became clear.

Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...

Penguins now have a place to go as they get older. More than half of the New England Aquarium’s African penguin colony has met or surpassed their typical life expectancy of 10 – 15 years in the wild.

Westminster commemorated the 250th anniversary of what became known as the “Westminster Massacre.” In 1775 two local men, ...

Under the broad definition of a pie as a filled, baked pastry shell, history has provided a wide range of pies. Egyptian ...

Maine could gain more than $2 million from New England’s electricity grid operator to help pay for electric vehicle subsidies through a proposal in the state Legislature. The measure would allow ...