Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...

Even 250 years after the first battle of the American Revolution, the spirit of resistance lives on in Lexington. The big ...

In response to this 18th-century vandalism/terrorism/coercion, the British government introduced a series of punitive measures under the Coercive Acts including dissolving the colonial assembly, ...

Columnist Candy Moulton writes, “July 4, 1776, marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence and America is preparing ...

Wet and cold didn’t daunt the spirit of the Bedford Minuteman Company, the other colonial militia groups, and a large group ...

As the 250th anniversary of the adoption of our Declaration of Independence draws near, on July 4,2026, many will call to mind the famous names of some of the great signers of our Declaration of ...

Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the union, but its oldest park is packed with big things to see and do, including ...

Known as the Tantiusques, the mine was sold to John Winthrop Jr., the son of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay ...

the Massachusetts Bay Company had its own problems. In the 1630s, the Crown sued the company for "[il]legally transferr[ing]" its government to the people inhabiting the colony. The lawsuit ended ...

University of Massachusetts hockey senior forward Lucas Mercuri has signed ... in the 2020 NHL Draft. Tampa Bay traded for Mercuri's rights on Sunday in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2025. ...

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