Billions of buzzing cicadas will soon emerge in a dozen states, including Massachusetts. The second-largest group of ...

"the Nation's First," traces its roots back to an order by the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court in 1636. "The 101st Engineers, 181st Infantry and the 182nd Infantry Regiment are the only ...

Among the earliest laws enacted by the Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, was to provide for a bounty on wolves. The Pilgrims from ‘Ye Olde England’ carried with them a ...

established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636. The first public school in the country, Boston Latin, was founded in Boston a year earlier; the state’s constitution required every town to ...

The early history of European colonization of America is often romanticized, but this is far from the messy truth. In reality, colonization was achieved by rival groups of settlers with competing ...

The hummingbirds are almost back to Massachusetts. The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only species that breeds in the Bay State ... user-reported sightings to map their progress.

It’s the oldest public park in America, and back in the 16th Century, when the God-fearing British Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there were whipping posts, stocks, and even ...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony sentenced religious dissident Anne Hutchinson to banishment in 1637, prompting her to resettle in Rhode Island with other non-Puritans. Quakers like Lawrence and ...

But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views. Their “city upon a hill” was a theocracy that brooked no dissent, religious ...

Screw that noise. I have ancestors on my mom’s side that go back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They had calloused hands from building this country before the Vances set foot here. For all I ...