The Great Awakening challenged established authority and turned sermons into mass events across eighteenth-century New England.
During Boston's 1721 smallpox epidemic, Cotton Mather and Zabdiel Boylston backed inoculation—and ignited a fierce public battle.
Boston's harbor connected the town to an Atlantic world of merchants, privateers, smugglers, sailors—and pirates.
The brutal 1675–1676 conflict transformed Native and colonial New England and left scars that shaped Boston's future.
A devastating seventeenth-century fire exposed just how vulnerable early Boston was to flame, crowding, and wooden construction.
John Winthrop's famous vision helped shape Boston's civic mythology—but the reality of Puritan Massachusetts was far more complicated.
In 1630, a Puritan migration transformed a small peninsula into the nucleus of one of English America's most consequential towns.
Before Boston was a colonial town, this coast was home to Indigenous communities with deep political, economic, and spiritual ties to the land and sea.
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