March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's the ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

Lithuanian land forces commander Brig. Gen. Arturas Radvilas, left, and 7th Army Training Command leader Brig. Gen. Steven ...

1609 – The Bermuda Islands became an English colony. 1664 – New Jersey became a British colony. King Charles II granted land in the New World to his brother James (The Duke of York). 1755 – In North ...

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...

A crippling blizzard makes the Duttons' bad winter much worse We next catch up with Alex (Julia Schlaepfer), who's also lived ...

Ahead of Assassin's Creed Shadows, here's a complete guide to all the Assassin's Creed games in order of release and ...

The city’s revised draft comprehensive plan summarizes in a few sentences its theory that increasing market-rate housing for ...

Evacuation Day is celebrated on March 17 and commemorates when, in 1776, George Washington and the Continental Army drove the ...

The state has chosen a site in Marlborough for a new police crime lab, with Worcester losing out on a bid for the facility, ...

Economic independence was another form of resistance for Black women in colonial Boston. Zipporah Potter Atkins was the first recorded Black woman to own property in America, purchasing land in ...