Were Mother’s Day celebrated in 17th century Massachusetts the way it’s celebrated today, Judith Coffin would have had quite a party. When she...
On Sept. 11, 1855, Hannah Ropes, a 46-year-old single parent, stepped onto a train in Boston and headed to the ‘Far-Off Land’...
When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of...
The Great Colonial Hurricane, possibly the strongest storm in New England’s history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635. The Rev. Richard Mather and...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony got its start on June 14, 1630, when the Arbella came to anchor in Salem Harbor after a...
When the Irish famine ships arrived in Boston in the 1840s, tens if not hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Ireland already...