At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.

The City of Chelsea, in partnership with the Governor Bellingham Cary House Museum, is thrilled to announce a series of public Open Houses and exciting historical programming this spring as part of ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...

Dr. William Hanna of the Old Colony History Museum in Taunton wrote an article about the Milk Bottle’s history in 2021. The Museum features exhibits highlighting the rich history and amazing stories ...

The roots of modern-day New York City— its dizzying cultural diversity and capitalist might—lie in its Dutch origins.

Which town in Palm Beach County was named by drawing names from a hat? And what about the roughly 40 others? We track down ...

To most people, Elon Musk founded Tesla. The truth? Tesla Motors was created in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk only got involved in 2004 as a major investor. With his PayPal ...

Dr. Yolanda Covington-Ward delivered the second lecture in the Black Studies Program’s Sankofa Lecture Series at Suffolk ...

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