There was some debate in 1782 about selecting a national bird. The bald eagle was a symbol of strength, courage, freedom and ...

The Whitefield Library is set to host Jody Bachelder, author of “Here First, Samoset and the Wawenock People of Pemaquid, ...

"Squanto: A Native Odyssey" by Andrew Lipman, Yale Univ. Press, 264 pages, $28 All that most Americans likely know about Squanto they learned in kindergarten. He was the gentle, almost saintly ...

Ever wonder where all the wild turkeys came from on Cape Cod? Surprisingly, it's a somewhat recent fowl development.

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

What you thought was eaten at the first Thanksgiving is probably historically inaccurate. The feast featured autumnal foods ...

When the Skipinnish Oak, a magnificent 400-year-old tree that stands amid a spruce plantation in Lochaber ... but also for their rarity – and one of the rarest is the Plymouth Pear. It was first ...

From colonial towns to seaport villages, some of the oldest towns in the United States take you back in time to eras gone by.

The members then watched a video of the HRC’s recent visit to the Historic Patuxet Homesite in Plymouth (formerly known as Plimouth Plantation) to learn about the Indigenous Wampanoag people who lived ...