For four centuries, the West Indies have made an outsized impact on New England. In 2018, West Indian stars and a West...
Bob Dylan returned to some of his most important roots in 1975 when he came to Massachusetts, particularly Cambridge and Lowell, with...
Early New Englanders, influenced by the Puritans, celebrated only reluctantly for most holidays. Religious festivals, they felt, were un-Christian and pagan. Yet...
Shortly after the American Civil War, a new kind of neighborhood emerged in New England cities: a Little Italy. They were poor,...
Titicut Follies exposed the sordid and cruel treatment of prisoners in 1966 at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater,...
In 1860, U.S. Census takers recorded 328 Greek immigrants living in America. Among them were 40 young men and boys. They arrived...