Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
In the summer of 1718, five ships of Scots-Irish immigrants from Ulster arrived in Boston to an uncertain welcome. The Puritan leaders...
Around 1643, Mary Latham fell in love with a boy who rejected her. About 17 years old and impetuous, Mary Latham decided...
When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of...
When John Winthrop and other members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony first settled in Boston in 1630, they soon discovered in the...