Illustration: the devil in Newbury. Credit: Melissa Davenport Berry.

The Devil Went Down to Newbury (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on October 18, 2024

With Halloween approaching, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about an accused witch in Newbury in 1679, 13 years before the Salem witch trials... (Read More)

Illustration: Ocean-Born Mary House and ghost. Credit: Melissa Davenport Berry.

New England Ghost Hunter and His Haunted Houses (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on October 16, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about ghost hunter John Parker, focusing on the Ocean-Born Mary House in New Hampshire... (Read More)

Illustration: spooky ghost and horse. Credit: Melissa Davenport Berry.

New England Ghost Hunter and His Haunted Houses (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on October 10, 2024

With Halloween approaching, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about ghost hunter John Parker, who investigated more than 30 haunted houses... (Read More)

Illustration: haunted house. Credit: Melissa Davenport Berry.

New England Ghost Hunter and His Haunted Houses (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on October 8, 2024

In this article, with Halloween approaching, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about ghost hunter John Parker, who investigated more than 30 haunted houses... (Read More)

Illustration: haunted tavern. Credit: Melissa Davenport Berry.

Spooky Tales: The Ayers-Allen Haunted Tavern

By Melissa Berry on October 4, 2024

In this article, with Halloween approaching, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the spirits that seem to haunt the Ayers-Allen House in New Jersey... (Read More)

Illustration: witchcraft trial at Salem Village. The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

How the Accused Were Pinned for Witchcraft in Salem 1692

By Melissa Berry on October 2, 2024

In this article, with Halloween approaching, Melissa Davenport Berry turns her thoughts to witches and writes about the Salem witch trials of 1692... (Read More)

Photo: Independence Hall's Assembly Room, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Antoine Taveneaux; Wikimedia Commons.

For Constitution Day: How Newspapers Covered the 1787 Constitutional Convention

By Jane Cook on September 17, 2024

In this article for Constitution Day, Jane Hampton Cook tells the story of how 55 delegates in 1787 created and signed the U.S. Constitution... (Read More)

Photo: the large 15-star, 15-stripe "Star-Spangled Banner" flag that inspired Francis Scott Key's poem (which became the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem) when it flew above Fort McHenry in the 1814 Battle of Baltimore. Shown here on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of History and Technology, around 1964. Credit: Smithsonian Institution Archives; Wikimedia Commons.

210th Anniversary of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’

By Jane Cook on September 16, 2024

In this article, Jane Hampton Cook tells the story of how Francis Scott Key’s poem eventually became the U.S. national anthem... (Read More)

Photo: “Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy” poster displayed in Defense Square, Washington, D.C., for a month beginning 7 November 1941. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

For Labor Day: Roosevelt’s Urgent Appeal to American Workers (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on August 30, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about President Roosevelt’s Labor Day speech in 1941 with the nation on the verge of WWII... (Read More)

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