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

You have heard about frivolous laws; well, it gets better — consider businesses or think tanks ranking your chance of having a UFO encounter.

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.

There is often little room for modern or student-produced art. The Houses “have a particular architecture,” Luise Mörke says, ...

Exactly 250 years on from the first showdown between British troops and militiamen that sparked the American War of ...

Columnist Candy Moulton writes, “July 4, 1776, marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence and America is preparing ...

The Meetinghouse has great potential to expand the community center services it offers, but the building requires investment ...

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 ...

But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views. Their “city upon a hill” was a theocracy that brooked no dissent, religious ...

As the 250th anniversary of the adoption of our Declaration of Independence draws near, on July 4,2026, many will call to mind the famous names of some of the great signers of our Declaration of ...