The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution on Feb. 6, 1788, becoming the sixth state to join the Union, according to the United States Census Bureau. Delaware was the first state to be admitted to ...

Two hundred fifty years ago this month, on Feb. 9, 1775, the British Parliament declared the Massachusetts Bay Colony to be in “rebellion.” This allowed British soldiers to shoot suspected ...

The right to pursue happiness is a core American principle. It informs our special kind of individualism and our big heart and explains why we generously give people ...

The notion of the “alienated teenager,” causing trouble for trouble’s sake was somewhat novel when Dean and Wood appeared on the screen. Until the 1940s, there was no special focus on young people ...

In 1690, the first paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to finance a military expedition to Canada.

Raylene Hinz-Penner here, a Liberal, Kansas native, retired English professor now living in Newton, with a glimpse into Wordy ...

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Sara Vowell’s 2009 best seller, The Wordy Shipmates: a book that details the 1630 New World arrival of the Massachusetts Bay ...

On April 29, 2016, the Rail Users’ Network (RUN) held a conference in Boston with the theme: “Who’s Looking Out for You? The ...

At one point, the settlement seemed poised “to become the city of destiny,” one historian wrote. But it didn’t last.

In 1623, former Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow rushed west from Plymouth to visit Ousamequin, the Pilgrims’ Pokanoket ...