The Last Sound Ranger
J. Dennis Robinson tells the story of John B. Robinson, his 102-year-old father, and his role at the Battle of Iwo Jima
J. Dennis Robinson
J. Dennis Robinson is a well-known columnist, lecturer, and public historian who often pens features for New Hampshire Magazine about the rich history of the Granite State, especially the seacoast area. He is the author of a dozen narrative history books on topics ranging from Jesse James, Lord Baltimore, and child labor exploitation to Wentworth by the Sea Hotel, Strawbery Banke Museum, Privateer Lynx, archaeology at the Isles of Shoals, and the infamous 1873 Smuttynose Island ax murders.
Learn more at his website: www.jdennisrobinson.com
Bunker Hill: From the Battle to the Monument
The Granite State played a key role at Bunker Hill
Digging the Isles of Shoals
Small artifacts found during an archeological dig on the Isles of Shoals tell big stories, and change history
Stealing the King’s Powder: Did The American Revolution Start Here?
Local historians have long proclaimed, not always tongue-in-cheek, that the American Revolution began in New Castle, New Hampshire, rather than on the bloody battlefields of Lexington and Concord.
High Aspirations: Dramatic Tales from Portsmouth’s North Church
Author J. Dennis Robinson tells the dramatic tale of Portsmouth's iconic North Church, and the steeple that shapes the skyline
Island Life and the History of New Castle
New Castle is an island, one of precious few on New Hampshire's brief contact with the open sea
How NH Really Started: A 400th Anniversary Return to 1623
Precious little is known about the first tiny group of English settlers who arrived aboard the Jonathan in spring 1623. They set up a fortified fishing and trading post at Little Harbor, now Odiorne State Park, in the town of Rye, New Hampshire.
Did John Really Love Lucy?
New Hampshire’s Lucy Lambert Hale gets a valentine from John Wilkes Booth.
A Charles Dickens Christmas
How publishing superstar James T. Fields convinced his most famous client to return to the United States.
How Spencer Tracy Settled New England
Can a 1952 Mayflower movie shed light on New Hampshire’s founding family?
The Salty Tale of Privateer Lynx
How a Baltimore schooner built in Maine by a Hawaiian entrepreneur found its way to New Hampshire
Lost Boundaries
How a UNH student inspired one of America’s first “race films” and why we’re still talking about it.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Music Hall
Portsmouth’s historic Music Hall is a familiar place to many, but we bet even its regular patrons don’t know all 10 of these facts about the storied venue.
