Most Revolutionary War history buffs know the story of Francis Marion, the Continental Army officer called the Swamp Fox for ...

In 1740, when Boston was a colonial outpost of 16,500 people, an extravagantly wealthy merchant named Peter Faneuil offered ...

Most notably, Massachusetts is known as the birthplace of the Revolutionary War, with the first battle of the war taking place in the state — a landmark event in the history of the United States that ...

The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which lead ...