Boston riots during the 18th century happened so often you could have called the town Riot City. Between 1700 and 1764, 28...
In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun — well,...
The Penobscot sachem Joseph Orono died in 1801, too early to know about his consolation prize for losing his people’s land to...
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere took the most famous of all midnight rides in American history. He was famous because Henry...
John Rowe was a prominent Boston merchant, socialite and politician at the time of the American Revolution. Born in England in 1715...