Welcome to another fascinating journey through history! On this day, March 17th, we reflect on significant events that have ...
Peter Drummey, chief historian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, joins WBUR to talk about Evacuation Day.
Doctor, Jacobite and Brigadier General, Hugh Mercer was a great friend of George Washington. He fought the English and ...
On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...
On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.
You know about the leprechauns and the Irish and the pot of gold, but did you know that St. Patrick's Day has another ...
On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...
India Today on MSN16d
Marathas, Mughals and British: The treaties of Purandar that reshaped Indian historyThe two Treaties of Purandar, signed over a century apart, shaped Indian history. The first, in 1665, was a setback for the Marathas against the Mughals but did not halt their rise. The second, in ...
An early sketch by the master landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837), not previously recorded in literature on the ...
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