Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground, with the French and British at loggerheads. The British Navy, with the support of...
George Washington possessed a unique set of qualities that inspired the people of 13 British colonies to create a new country. He...
In 1788 Pierre de Sales Laterrière traveled from Canada to Massachusetts to study medicine. Born around 1743, he had been a practicing...
Robert Hallowell in 1792 decided to leave England and to return to America permanently. He had fled Boston during the American Revolution,...
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in...