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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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Gettysburg memorial to the 22nd Massachusetts

The 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. The 22nd Massachusetts was organized by Senator Henry Wilson (future Vice-President during the Ulysses Grant administration) and was therefore known as "Henry Wilson's Regiment." It was formed in Boston, Massachusetts, and established on September 28, 1861, for a term of three years.

Arriving in Washington in October 1861, became part of the Army of the Potomac, with which it would be associated for its entire term of service. The regiment saw its first action during the Siege of Yorktown in April 1862. Their worst casualties in terms of percentages took place during the Battle of Gettysburg (memorial pictured). The 22nd was especially proficient in skirmish drill and was frequently deployed in that capacity throughout the war. (Full article...)

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John Mayer performing at the Crossroads Guitar Festival

John Mayer is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy for "Your Body Is a Wonderland". The blues influence can be seen on his album Continuum, released in September 2006. Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change" at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007. (Full article...)

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Robert F. Kennedy

Credit: Warren K. Leffler (1963)

Massachusetts native and then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd of African Americans and whites through a megaphone outside the Justice Department

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Image 110. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 28. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 3A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 44. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 5Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 6A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 76. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 8Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 9Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 10An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 11Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 12A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 13Boston'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 14Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 15Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 16Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 17Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 18The 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 19Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 207. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 21Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 229. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 23Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 242. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 25The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 26A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 27The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 281. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 29Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 30First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 31An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 32Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 33The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 34Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 35A 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 36Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 37Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 385. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 39World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 40New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 41Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 42New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 43Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 44A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 45A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 46New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 47The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 48A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 49Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 503. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 51Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 52The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 53The 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 54Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a majority in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a majority in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 55Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)

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... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?

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Flag of Connecticut

Connecticut
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.6°N 72.7°W

Connecticut is the 3rd least extensive, the 29th most populous, and 4th most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. (Full article...)