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

Westminster commemorated the 250th anniversary of what became known as the “Westminster Massacre.” In 1775 two local men, ...

While the Rinat Yisrael siddur’s original editions relied on the support of the Religion and Education Ministries, the edition meant for Diaspora Jews was funded by the World Zionist Organization’ ...

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 ...

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

Horses have long been linked with police forces. The French and the British were using mounted police patrols as early as the ...

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 ...

On my recent visit to my daughter in Rhode Island, Julie wanted to know what activity might interest me on my birthday, it ...

As a youngster, my father, Robert Brennan Sr., used to take his wife and children from Geneva to various historical sites, as ...

Six-year-old musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for the first time at royal courts in Vienna and Munich. Catherine the Great began her rule of Russia. John Montagu, the 4th earl of ...

Recently, we have been bombarded with news reports of conflict and change within our federal capitol building, many of which ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A British national from Northern Ireland has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Rhode Island for participating in a multi-state construction and money laundering fraud scheme, ...