Now that South Coast Rail is running to Boston, where do you go from there? Here's how to get to 10 top tourist spots by ...

The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

April 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord—the day ordinary men changed the world.

I first created “THEN & NOW” 30 years (and three newspapers) ago to offer bite-sized, tempting morsels of history. But this ...

Wet and cold didn’t daunt the spirit of the Bedford Minuteman Company, the other colonial militia groups, and a large group ...

For dessert lovers, Scottish Highland Creamery in Oxford offers small-batch ice cream created by owner Victor Barlow using ...

That whole thing about "no taxation without representation"? Those taxes were mostly import duties on goods imported from Britain.

Many of the things that fill our houses today also filled the homes of colonial Rhode Islanders ... businesses in the early 1700s and put Newport on the furniture design map by innovating unique ...

In Havre de Grace, the Concord Point Lighthouse has been guiding mariners since 1827, making it the oldest continuously ...