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

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.

Welcome to another fascinating journey through history! On this day, March 17th, we reflect on significant events that have ...

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

In 1936, Pittsburgh’s Great St. Patrick’s Day Flood began as the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers and their tributaries, swollen by rain and melted snow, started exceeding flood stage; the high water ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

Throngs of green-clad, shamrock-festooned revelers filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city on Sunday for the ...

The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council organises the parade and this year’s chief marshal was retired Navy Lt Cmdr Alanna Devlin Ball, who represented the US at the 2023 Invictus Games in ...

Get out your green clothing, four-leaf clover and claddagh ring! The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston is ...