Massachusetts is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War this year and next with initiatives and events ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

St. Stanislaus Catholic Church is renovating two neighboring buildings into its new parish center. The project will include ...

Kurt Russell recently traced his family roots back to Arlington and the first day of the Revolutionary War, where his ...

The Berkshire County Historical Society will present an evening of sea shanties with folklorist Alex Harvey on Thursday, July 10, at Arrowhead.

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Tuesday's Wake Up Call comes from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Wyoming Historical Society has announced it is kicking out all of its county chapters. It’s a move that widens a growing rift that has divided Wyoming’s historical community. Archaeologists looking ...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire County Historical Society has announced its schedule of summer events, which will include new programs, collaborations, and returning annual favorites.

The California Historical Society, facing longstanding financial challenges exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, has decided to dissolve and transfer its collections to Stanford University.

William M. Fowler, Jr. is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Northeastern University in Boston, and also the former Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, President of the New ...

Rockwood most recently has been serving as communications director for the Massachusetts Historical Society, an organization she’s been with for about four years. Overall, Rockwood brings roughly 14 ...