Massachusetts communities will mark 250 years since the "shot heard 'round the world" with reenactments, parades and other ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

This decade-long construction project, like the Big Dig, isn’t just about transportation. It would open up roughly 100 acres ...

Fan of Revolutionary history? A new exhibition celebrating Massachusetts' role in the Revolutionary War opens in Boston today ...

After 45 years at Cambridge Typewriter Company, Tom Furrier is retiring and closing the shop. Friends, family and customers ...

With “Rebellion 1776,” Anderson returns once again to the Revolutionary War era. Set in Boston, the story begins toward the ...

We spoke with Laurie Halse Anderson, recipient of the 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, about her new middle grade novel, ...

Philanthropist Linda Bean founded a nonprofit that renovated the Joshua Lewis House to convert it into a library dedicated to ...

Mayor Michelle Wu commemorated St. Patrick’s Day and Boston’s 249th Evacuation Day at the South Boston Citizens Association’s Evacuation Day Historical Exercises Monday. Due to inclement weather, the ...

Vibrant green flooded South Boston’s streets as over one million people gathered for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. People lined up and down the barricades eagerly awaiting for the elaborate ...

Peter Drummey, chief historian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, joins WBUR to talk about Evacuation Day.

One of the most pivotal moments in the American Revolutionary War occurred on March 17, 1776, when British forces evacuated Boston ... of a computer system at the Massachusetts Institute of ...