“You can’t bring hell to Boston. It’s been here waiting for you since 1770,” read the artists’ cheeky rejoinder to the Trump administration. The hat tip, new #rebels saluting the ...

On March 5, 1770, hundreds of angry colonists faced off against less than a dozen British soldiers in a city square in Boston. The events of that day are remembered as the Boston Massacre ...

The cutting edge of resistance came from leaders and everyday people in the town of Boston in the 1760s and early 1770s. I have been learning about those people, researching a book I am writing ...

In the years following the Boston Massacre, playwright Mercy Otis Warren wrote that "No previous outrage had given a general alarm, as the commotion on the fifth of March, 1770." Although the ...

Here is an excerpt from the Boston Gazette‘s March 12, 1770 story about the Boston Massacre: “….But the young man seeing a person near him with a drawn sword and good cane ready to support ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre of 1770 — as a symbol of entrenched white-on ...

On that day, roughly 800 British soldiers marched from Boston to Concord to destroy military supplies that colonial rebels had gathered. Thousands of militia members intercepted the British ...