For nearly eleven months in 1775 and 1776, a patchwork American army penned the British inside Boston. Here is how the siege unfolded and what it...
On April 18, 1775, two lanterns glowed briefly in the Old North Church steeple while riders slipped out of Boston to warn the countryside. Here is...
When a city or town builds a new school or replaces water mains, it often borrows by selling bonds. A plain explanation of how municipal bonds...
Months before Lexington and Concord, a British raid on a gunpowder store near Boston set off false rumors of war and brought thousands of armed colonists...
On December 16, 1773, a day of meetings ended in darkness at Griffin's Wharf, where disguised men emptied 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This...
Paul Revere is remembered for one night in 1775, but he spent a lifetime as a silversmith, engraver, foundryman and industrialist. Here is the fuller story...
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...
Stolen logins are behind many break-ins at small businesses. How password managers, two-factor authentication and passkeys work, and where to start.
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...
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