Mayor Michelle Wu commemorated St. Patrick’s Day and Boston’s 249th Evacuation Day at the South Boston Citizens Association’s Evacuation Day Historical Exercises Monday. Due to inclement weather, the ...
Peter Drummey, chief historian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, joins WBUR to talk about Evacuation Day.
On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.
The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council organises the parade and this year’s chief marshal was retired Navy Lt Cmdr ...
It’s that time of year again when more than a million revelers fill the streets of America’s most Irish big city for the ...
The sailors are stationed aboard the USS Thomas Hudner, a destroyer that was commissioned in Boston in 2018 and docked in the ...
Starmer said the Kremlin’s “dithering and delay” over Trump’s ceasefire proposal and Russia’s “continued barbaric attacks” on ...
March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's 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 ...
You know about the leprechauns and the Irish and the pot of gold, but did you know that St. Patrick's Day has another ...