New England

<p><span class="deck">Nathaniel was poor and sunk in his solitude; Sophia seemed a hopeless invalid, but a late-flower love gave them at last “a perfect Eden.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Before Plymouth Colony there was Sagadahoc, the short-lived settlement for which Sir Ferdinando Gorges had high hopes</span></p>

<p>That splendid flower of New England— the town meeting—wilts under the scrutiny of a native son</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The crumbling headstones of New England’s Puritan burying grounds honor the dead) warn the living, and promise a bright resurrection</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Today’s lumberjacks are better paid, and they are apt to live longer, but their exploits pale beside those of old-fashioned "river hogs."<br />
those of the old-fashioned “river hogs”</span> </p>

<p>At one time it was the largest cotton mill in the world. Now, in the name of progress, one of New England’s most historic and unusual urban areas is being carved into parking lots</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Year by year the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic grew thinner — but until the last old soldier was gone, Decoration Day in a New England town was a moving memorial to “the War”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Pried loose from a furious Great Britain to meet a tragic death in the New World, this huge elephant made a fortune for his owner, delighted millions, and added a new superlative to our language</span> </p>

<p>In recent years many voices—both Native-American and white—have questioned whether Indians did in fact invent scalping. What is the evidence?</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The mysterious diseases that nearly wiped out the Indians of New England were the work of the Christian God — or so both Pilgrims and Indians believed.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A vicious attack on a holiday favorite</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When it comes to genealogical pride, there’s nothing to equal the modest satisfaction of a slightly threadbare, socially impregnable New Englander. A canny guide to the subtle distinctions of America’s most rarefied society.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How Hadley, Massachusetts, (incorporated 1661) coped with wolves, drunks, Indians, witches, and the laws of God and man.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">She was the first whaleship ever sunk by her prey. But that’s not why she’s remembered.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The richly embellished account book of an eighteenth-century sea captain, newly discovered in a Maine attic</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The curious story of Milford Haven</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Did the Indians have a special, almost noble, affinity with the American environment, or were they despoilers of it? Two historians of the environment explain the profound clash of cultures between Indians and whites that has made each group almost incomprehensible to the other.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The first settlers marked the borders of their lives with simple fences that grew ever more elaborate over the centuries</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> In the blustery days of late fall, the traveler still can find the sparseness and solitude that so greatly pleased the Concord naturalist in 1849</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody managed to extend the boundaries that cramped the lives of nineteenth-century women. Elizabeth introduced the kindergarten movement to America, Mary developed a new philosophy of mothering that we now take for granted, and Sophia was liberated from invalidism by her passionate love for her husband.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">On their weathered stone battlements can be read the whole history of the three-century struggle for supremacy in the New World.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Very. The legacy of British traits in America is deeper and more significant than we knew.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">They border each other, they look alike, and most outsiders have a hard time separating the two. Yet residents know the differences are enormous.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One terrible night came to symbolize the whole struggle for supremacy on the North American continent.</span></p>

<p>New England industrialists hired thousands of young farm girls to work together in early textile mills—and spawned a host of unintended consequences.</p>