As a young man, William Hull redeemed his friend Nathan Hale’s image. As an old man, Hull desperately tried to repair his...
In the fall of 1789, President George Washington spent 10 days in Massachusetts, greeted by large crowds of people — with the...
Boston’s Rev. Mather Byles was a Loyalist through and through. His loyalty to England never wavered throughout the American Revolution. What set...
On a June night in 1777, Gen. Alexander Scammell poured out his heart in a letter to Abigail Bishop of Mistic, Mass....
Of all the dramatic events that took place at Boston’s Old South Meeting House, the battle to save it from destruction in...
In January 1793, Bostonians raised a liberty pole at the intersection of Kilby, Water and Battersea streets. But the American Revolution had...