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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England; Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire; and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. (Full article...)

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USS Connecticut underway

USS Connecticut was the lead ship of the six Connecticut-class battleships. Due to the Royal Navy's commissioning of HMS Dreadnought seven months earlier, Connecticut was obsolete before she was commissioned; thus, she was the last lead ship of any class of pre-dreadnought battleship commissioned by the United States Navy. Connecticut served as a flagship for the Jamestown Exposition, which commemorated the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony. She later sailed with the Great White Fleet on a circumnavigation of the Earth to showcase the United States Navy's growing fleet of blue-water-capable ships. After the Great White Fleet returned to the U.S. on 22 February 1909, Connecticut participated in several flag-waving exercises intended to protect American citizens abroad until she was pressed into service as a troop transport at the end of World War I to expedite the return of American Expeditionary Forces from France. For the remainder of her career, Connecticut sailed to various places in both the Atlantic and Pacific while training newer recruits to the Navy. However, the provisions of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty stipulated that many of the older battleships, Connecticut among them, would have to be disposed of, so she was decommissioned on 1 March 1922 and sold for scrap on 1 November 1923. (Full article...)

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Bannister, c. 1880

Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in colonial New Brunswick, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux, he was a prominent member of African-American cultural and political communities, such as the Boston abolition movement. Bannister received national recognition after he won a first prize in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was also a founding member of the Providence Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bannister's style and predominantly pastoral subject matter reflected his admiration for the French artist Jean-François Millet and the French Barbizon school. A lifelong sailor, he also looked to the Rhode Island seaside for inspiration. Bannister continually experimented, and his artwork displays his Idealist philosophy and his control of color and atmosphere. He began his professional practice as a photographer and portraitist before developing his better-known landscape style. (Full article...) (Full article...)

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Boston Massacre

Credit: Paul Revere (1770)

Paul Revere's 1770 engraving, depicting the Boston Massacre

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Image 1Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 2A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 3Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 4An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 53. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 6Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 7A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 8Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 9Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 10Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 11Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 12Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 13An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 146. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 15Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 16Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 17A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 18Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 19New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 20Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 21A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 22Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 23The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 24Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 254. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 26Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 27Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 28The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 29The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 30A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 31Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 328. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 33Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 34The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 35First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 362. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 375. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 38A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 39Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 40The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 41Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 42The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 43Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 441. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 45Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 46New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 47The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 48New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 4910. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 50Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 51A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 527. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 53A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 54World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 559. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)

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Flag of New Hampshire

New Hampshire
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 44°N 71.5°W

New Hampshire, named after the southern English county of Hampshire, is the 5th least extensive and the 9th least populous of the 50 U.S. states.

It became the first post-colonial sovereign nation in the Americas when it broke off from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.

It is known internationally for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level. (Full article...)

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