Spokeo examined State Symbols USA and other resources to explore why state seals are significant and how they help us ...

At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Besides staging the protest, the leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, appealed to governor Lakshman ...

The United States is a relatively young country, but there are plenty of historical places in America where you can lear ...

The final version of the Declaration of Independence begins with the phrase: “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the document in June 1776 ...

From radar imaging to photos shot aboard space shuttles, here's a collection of NASA's photos of Massachusetts taken since ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

One of the city's oldest surviving public buildings, the Old State House was constructed in 1713 and served as the center of Massachusetts' colonial government, witnessing pivotal moments in ...

Known as the Tantiusques, the mine was sold to John Winthrop Jr., the son of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay ...

A group of investors led by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP agreed to acquire Colonial Enterprises Inc. in a deal that values the operator of the biggest US fuel pipeline at about $9 billion.