If amateur investigation into my lineage is to be believed, Rebecca Nurse is my ninth great-grandmother, Lynne Weiler writes.

Mary Evans Picture Library / Everett Collection Few corners of American history have been as exhaustively or insistently explored as the nine months during which the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...

On March 1, 1692, Tituba and two other rather disreputable ... newly-appointed governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. For four long years, Mather had been in England, leading the fight to ...

Feb. 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I. In 1692, a doctor in Massachusetts Bay Colony said ...