New England’s oldest hospitals are all younger than such venerable institutions as schools, banks, businesses and taverns. Religious orders had run hospitals...
Independence Day from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannon fire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over...
The Spirit of 76 reappeared again and again after the American Revolution as an idea, as a symbol and as a propaganda...
Joseph Warren, say some today, would have been the first president of the United States had he not been killed at the Battle...
The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and John Adams are well known and well marked, but where are the...
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....