the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union. In 1811, Timothy Pickering, a Federalist from Massachusetts, became the first U.S. senator to be censured after ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world ...

That concern for others, for striving to do what is right, to do something (like running a marathon) not because it is easy ...

With a peninsula coming out of its side like a fishing hook, Massachusetts is easy to distinguish when viewed from space. Once one of the original 13 colonies before the founding of the United ...

The oldest annual marathon in the world is the Boston Marathon, first run in 1897. The first Boston Marathon was inspired by ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, reenact the start of the American Revolution every year, but this year's festivities ...

The irony of the moment does not escape Revolutionary War reenactor Justin Murray, a 33-year-old eighth grade civics teacher ...

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