On a cold March night in 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd on King Street and killed five people. The shooting, the trials and the...
In October 1768, British regiments marched up from Long Wharf and settled into a town that did not want them. The occupation that followed turned a...
The Sons of Liberty grew out of a small Boston social club in 1765 and became a network that organized protests, shaped public opinion and enforced...
A tax on paper turned Boston's streets into a stage for protest in 1765. Here is how the Stamp Act crisis unfolded in the town, from...
In the early 1740s, revival preachers drew crowds larger than Boston itself and split the town's churches. The Great Awakening reshaped how New Englanders thought about...
When smallpox struck Boston in 1721, a minister, an enslaved African man and a self-taught doctor championed inoculation, and the town split over it. The fight...
In colonial Boston the line between lawful privateer and hanged pirate could be thin. This feature covers Captain Kidd's arrest, the Whydah survivors' trial, Cotton Mather's...
John Winthrop led the Massachusetts Bay Colony for much of its first two decades. His vision of a covenanted community, and the tensions it created, shaped...
In the spring of 1630 a fleet of eleven ships carried the Massachusetts Bay Company's settlers, livestock and charter across the Atlantic. Here is how that...
The holidays are over and foot traffic drops. That makes the quiet weeks of winter the moment when local shops and restaurants most need their neighbors.
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