The child is not the mere creature of the State.”  With those words, issued a century ago, a unanimous Supreme Court ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the execution of Mary Dyer, Thomas a Becket being consecrated ...

According to the Massachusetts Legacy Tree Program, the Endicott Pear Tree – a European pear tree named Pyrus communis – was planted between 1632 and 1649 by the first governor of the Massachusetts ...

This bizarre history made it to the states when Christmas was outright banned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659. An act that had deep roots in the Puritan-led Parliament's fight against ...

My wife’s dad, Doug Jacobs, collected knives. After he passed away, Marcia and I cleaned out his Ohio house and sold or gave ...

Leading academic institutions have been toppled before in centers of learning such as Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston next?

Anna Eisenberg's empty USAID badge holder is seen next to USAID pins, a coin from the USAID Office of Inspector ...

One of the most exciting rites of spring is the alewife run, an annual event where throngs of fish race upstream from the ocean to inland water bodies on a ...

WE WERE THE WESTERN BORDER OF PLYMOUTH COLONY. THEN AROUND 1690, WE BECAME PART OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY AND THEN FINALLY BECAME RHODE ISLAND IN 1747. TO REVISIT OUR CLUES, WE BOOKED A LITTLE ...

Every May 20, beneath the proverbial shadows of Charlotte’s modern glass and steel skyline, supporters gather to commemorate what they believe was the first declaration of independence in the American ...