In many Massachusetts towns, residents vote directly on budgets and bylaws. A guide to open and representative town meetings and how to take part.
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...
In summer it is a spray pool. In winter the Frog Pond becomes one of Boston's favorite places to skate. A look at its history and...
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...
In 1675 and 1676, war between English colonists and a coalition of Native nations devastated New England. Here is how it began, how it spread, and...
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...
When the Fed changes its key interest rate, the effects ripple out to credit cards, car loans, mortgages and business lines of credit. Here is the...
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...
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