History

In “The Beginner’s Guide to Cemetery Sleuthing,” Erin Moulton decodes recurring symbols found on old gravestones and gives steps for how to learn more about the people buried there.

Refrigerated food used to be seen as unnatural. Now, it’s warped our very definition of the word “fresh.”

Erin Moulton uses genealogical research techniques to dig up information on recipe authors from the past.

A group of local activists and academics are working to preserve LGBTQ+ history in the Seacoast area. As part of that effort, a new historical audio and video archive is now open to the public at the Portsmouth Public Library.

How we categorize time depends on who’s doing the categorizing.

Born in Concord in 1890, Flynn was a crusader for women’s and worker’s rights, a founding member of the ACLU and, later, a leader of the Communist Party.

Public libraries and high schools across New Hampshire have been hosting a series of discussions surrounding the 80th anniversary of the internment of Japanese Americans.

Forget about beer, or even water; it was hard apple cider that was THE drink of choice in colonial America. Even kids drank it! And since it’s made from apples – the “all-American” fruit – what could be more American than cider? But apples aren’t native to America. They’re originally from Kazakhstan.

We discuss last week's attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol in D.C. while exploring how social media and disinformation campaigns contributed to this…

In Stark, a small cliffside cemetery has been eroding into the Ammonoosuc for years – and both earth and bones have been lost to the river.During a…