Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Emma Lazarus had an overriding faith that supporting immigrants would lead to untold improvements across the nation and ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

Analysis - In the Sahel, violent terrorism--now structural--and various forms of trafficking, including that of migrants, are linked structural realities. The agonizing Trans borders cooperation is ...

Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...

Municipalities all over the commonwealth have begun celebrating Massachusetts 250 and thanks to a great effort by the Historical Commission, the high school’s National History Honor Society and the We ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

What the Olive Branch Petition suggests about the founders — and Americans today.

The New Mexico-based artist Maja Ruznic presents a vivid and shamanistic response to her state's fraught history.