On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers organized as Minutemen in Concord, Mass., fired the "shot heard 'round the world" to ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" ...

“Free colonists, who are living in the colonies in the 1760s, think they're part of the greatest empire since Rome because ...

I desire, even with profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report what hints I ...

Samuel Whittemore lived until he was 96, dying on February 2, 1793, shortly before George Washington was inaugurated for his ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the “the shot heard ‘round the world,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, the first ...

Indiana National Guard soldiers and airmen are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

Whether it's minutemen gathering on the Old North Bridge, or Samuel Prescott riding his horse across it, these reenactments remind Massachusetts of where we come from.