When U.S. President Donald Trump started talking about annexing Canada to make it the 51st state, people in Castine, Maine, ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...

This bizarre history made it to the states when Christmas was outright banned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659. An act ...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans in 1630, and the two colonies merged to become the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691. Plymouth history: The oldest town in MA is older ...

A monument to an English-speaking and Christian Indigenous man, born in 1620, is planned in Lakeville. Some Mashpee Wampanoag ...

Early settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not interested in religious freedom. They created a theocracy—a society led and bound by the rules of one religious sect.

The true history of America includes evil acts of slavery. It can't be erased by defunding African American history museums ...

Discover 10 interesting facts about Harvard University. Explore its rich history, famous alumni, unique traditions, and the ...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony had made its position clear by 1641; any perceived nonconformity in sexuality or gender generally met harsh treatment, and even legal prosecution. In the late 1800s, ...

The service traces its roots to 1636, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court ordered the formation of three militias to defend the colony’s interests.

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Like other cities within English-held Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem was peopled by Puritan settlers. Their daily lives played out alongside the area’s Indigenous inhabitants, ...