In 1773, one unidentified official's disagreement with his boss, and his actions to inform Americans about it, played a big ...

If amateur investigation into my lineage is to be believed, Rebecca Nurse is my ninth great-grandmother, Lynne Weiler writes.

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" ...

Co-Founder and CEO of Colony Grill. "Partnering with the Tampa Bay Rays, who share our strong commitment to community, and a mission to bring people together, is an incredible opportunity to ...

Historians and others look to balance any celebrations with questions about slavery, women and Indigenous people and what their stories say about the U.S. overall.

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

But people from roughly a dozen of the areas ... "the Nation's First," traces its roots back to an order by the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court in 1636. "The 101st Engineers, 181st ...

The Massachusetts Constitution was the basis for the U.S. Constitution. Here's why that matters. And here's what's at stake ...

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, ...

Thousands of people came to this Massachusetts town Saturday just before ... “It did not seem possible that a mother country and her colony had actually come to blows.” The rebels had already ...