PHILADELPHIA — The caretakers of the SS United States, once known as the Queen of the Seas, have sent out an SOS to the highest office in the land as the vessel faces the threat of eviction.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Monday, February 12, 2024
The cannon fire from the besieged British was deadly. One shot had just killed four Americans. Another had killed a drummer who had stepped from cover. Yet, as the Americans dug their trenches closer and closer, one man stood in the open, taunting the enemy gunners.
Sunday, February 04, 2024
Prior to Civil War Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter’s death on May 21, 1901, a series of events paved the way for the erection of an equestrian statue to honor him in the city of his birth, Portsmouth, N.H. A $30,000 bequest for the project was provided by the estate of Porter’s second cousin, Rob…
Saturday, February 03, 2024
Some stories are buried too deeply to uncover, lost behind forgotten names and impersonal dates of birth and death.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Since Amelia Earhart disappeared more than 85 years ago while attempting to fly around the world, people have been searching for her plane with hopes of solving the mystery behind her final flight.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton excoriated former President Donald Trump as an utterly self-interested man who would punish personal enemies and appease adversaries Russia and China in a new edition of his memoir released on Tuesday.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
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The results from primary day are in and the winners are: The three fourth-graders who designed the “I Voted” stickers people received at the polls last week.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
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A governor has the right to take down a historical marker, a state attorney told a judge Wednesday in a hearing over whether the state acted legally in removing a plaque honoring a national labor and Communist Party leader from the early 20th century.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
He was known as the Hermit of Taylor Pond, but to me he was simply Perley, an unlikely friend who chose to live in seclusion, keeping his distance from people for much of his life — and then welcoming visitors to his makeshift door when he became the stuff of local lore and legend.
Friday, January 19, 2024
The rights and obligations shared by all Americans is the topic of a virtual conversation led by veteran diplomat and best-selling author Dr. Richard Haass next month.
Monday, January 15, 2024
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. recalled falling to his knees and weeping during his visit to a divided Jerusalem in 1959.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
LACONIA — In the 95th year since his birth and 56th year since his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 2024 remains a vital part of the discussion about justice, equality and humans loving and treating each other well, including here in the Lakes Region.
Monday, January 08, 2024
NEWTON, Iowa - Former president Donald Trump suggested Saturday at a campaign event here that the U.S. Civil War "could have been negotiated," a remark that drew criticism from historians as well as political opponents.
Sunday, January 07, 2024
The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has announced that the U.S. secretary of the Interior has listed Littleton Community House and Annex in the National Register of Historic Places both for its architecture and its contributions to the community.
Monday, January 01, 2024
Buried in an ancient tomb in China sat a small, distinctly shaped bottle. The 7,000-year-old bottle might look simple, but it held a mystery.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
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The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has announced that Bald Peak Colony Club in Moultonborough has been honored by the U.S Secretary of the Interior by being listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a distinct example of a rural country club established in the 1920s.
When people unfolded their copies of the Buffalo Times on Dec. 6, 1898, they read news of a diamond heist, a double divorce and a deadly boating accident in Algiers. But there, at the bottom of the front page, was something truly unexpected: a letter from Santa Claus.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Setting sail on “Endeavor” was a challenge, and not just because it meant transporting 3 tons of art across the country.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
RICHMOND, Va. - A federal judge in Alexandria issued a temporary restraining order Monday to halt the removal of the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, citing an allegation that surrounding graves were being disturbed by the work.
Thursday, December 14, 2023
You’d be forgiven for thinking you know this story.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Twenty-five land conservation and historic preservation projects across the state have been approved to receive $3.7 million in matching grants from the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
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Canterbury resident and longtime activist Arnie Alpert has proposed a formal set of rules for the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) to adopt after they allegedly violated their own policies in removing historical signage over political controversy.
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Angelo Camberis saluted and faced the Merrimack River as taps was being played Sunday afternoon during Manchester’s remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Monday, December 04, 2023
BOSTON — Tea bags are coming in from all over the U.S. for a semiquincentennial bash in Boston.
Saturday, December 02, 2023
At the Army-Navy game, West Point will honor the 2003 "Thunder Run" into Baghdad led by an officer from N.H.
BOSCAWEN — While honoring those interred there, Saturday’s “Wreaths for Boscawen” at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery also kept the living in mind.
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
ATHENS/LONDO — Greece’s government on Tuesday accused Britain of showing “a lack of respect” by abruptly canceling a meeting between their leaders at short notice in a dispute over ancient Greek sculptures brought to Britain in the early 19th century. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cance…
Sunday, November 26, 2023
IN 1822, MASTER Commandant John Porter was second-in-command at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. He had served there since 1820 after arriving from his previous post at the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard. Porter and his family lived in a rented house in Portsmouth, N.H., directly acr…
Charles Peters, founder and longtime editor of Washington Monthly, considered himself the Don Quixote of journalism. On an anemic budget, he guided a low-circulation but influential muckraking periodical that for a time became a must-read in policymaking circles on Capitol Hill and in the Wh…
In Portland's historical Abyssinian Meeting House, 198 names were read aloud Saturday remembering those who perished 125 years ago in New England's worst maritime disaster.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, began like any other day for Walter Cronkite, the anchor of "CBS Evening News." He got to the CBS newsroom in Manhattan around 10 a.m., his usual start time, and spent the morning at his desk poring over the newswires, looking for stories to cover in his evening broadc…
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Paul Landis stood guard outside Parkland Memorial Hospital's Trauma Room No. 1 as Father Oscar Huber rushed past, dressed in his Roman collar. It was just before 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. Less than half an hour earlier, Landis had been riding on the running board of a Secret Service c…
Monday, November 20, 2023
In artwork depicting the Napoleonic Wars, gunpowder often clouds the scene, but among the hundreds of troops, one figure is immediately recognizable as Napoleon Bonaparte.
Sunday, November 19, 2023
First American in space and Derry native Alan B. Shepard Jr. would have been 100 years old on Saturday and a downtown museum space in his hometown honored the centennial celebration with a grand opening of a new exhibit.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
DALLAS — On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, civic leader Gail Thomas surprised a public symposium convened to discuss the matter by saying: "We have not wanted to own the shadow of the assassination. In a sense, we’ve been a city without a shadow.…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
A milestone birthday is being celebrated in the hometown of one of America’s most famed flyers.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point in World War II.
Thursday, November 09, 2023
The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has announced that the Clay Memorial Library in Jaffrey has been honored by the United States Secretary of the Interior by being listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Monday, November 06, 2023
The combative former president's trial is shaping up to be "a legal battle that will make political history." That was the judgment of the New York Times in a headline when Theodore Roosevelt went on trial in a Syracuse, N.Y., courtroom more than a century ago.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
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A governor has the right to take down a historical marker, a state attorney told a judge Wednesday in a hearing over whether the state acted legally in removing a plaque honoring a national labor and Communist Party leader from the early 20th century.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
He was known as the Hermit of Taylor Pond, but to me he was simply Perley, an unlikely friend who chose to live in seclusion, keeping his distance from people for much of his life — and then welcoming visitors to his makeshift door when he became the stuff of local lore and legend.
Friday, January 19, 2024
The rights and obligations shared by all Americans is the topic of a virtual conversation led by veteran diplomat and best-selling author Dr. Richard Haass next month.
Monday, January 15, 2024
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. recalled falling to his knees and weeping during his visit to a divided Jerusalem in 1959.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
LACONIA — In the 95th year since his birth and 56th year since his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 2024 remains a vital part of the discussion about justice, equality and humans loving and treating each other well, including here in the Lakes Region.
Monday, January 08, 2024
NEWTON, Iowa - Former president Donald Trump suggested Saturday at a campaign event here that the U.S. Civil War "could have been negotiated," a remark that drew criticism from historians as well as political opponents.
Sunday, January 07, 2024
The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has announced that the U.S. secretary of the Interior has listed Littleton Community House and Annex in the National Register of Historic Places both for its architecture and its contributions to the community.