This spring will mark the Semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of the events of April 19, 1775. On that day, the ...

Cape Cod might be the most popular Massachusetts beach destination, but this oceanfront city north of Boston boasts a ...

Paul Revere set off on horseback toward Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, with the warning that the British were coming.

Since The Start of the American Revolution    Tensions were high in the colony of Massachusetts in the spring of 1775. Two years earlier, in response to the Boston Tea Party, the British crown had ...

The History of Newport, New Hampshire, from 1766 to 1878, with a Genealogical Register,” by Edmund Wheeler provides a brisk, ...

There is a moment that becomes a focal point in the history of every nation’s creation story. For the United States, that ...