Join us for the untold history of "War on Christmas" in the Plum Pudding Riots! This bizarre history made it to the states when Christmas was outright banned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659.

In 1692, over 150 people, mostly female, were accused of witchcraft. Fourteen women were executed, and fifty-five served ...

1 of 5 | Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning actor Joel Grey was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on ...

The right to pursue happiness is a core American principle. It informs our special kind of individualism and our big heart and explains why we generously give people ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of ...

Two hundred fifty years ago this month, on Feb. 9, 1775, the British Parliament declared the Massachusetts Bay Colony to be ...

Westport, Massachusetts, was the westernmost port in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Even Westport ... president of the Westport Historical Society and a sixth-generation Westporter, said ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

They sent Captain Myles Standish and a small party of men to an English outpost on the rim of Massachusetts Bay ... and the founders of the Bay Colony. It’s a less helpful term for the 1670s.

Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are synergistic.