Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey recently signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

The shortest days of the year are finally behind us for now, as Boston gets ready to see its first 5 p.m. sunset of the year.

"I'm extremely excited to get to know the people of Cincinnati and for them to get to know me and to see how we create this ...

The Leaning Tower of Pizza [U.S. Library of Congress] was among the gems found in John Margolies' Photographs of Roadside ...

On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

A disobedient child, of course, must be punished. Courtesy: Library of Congress In 1773, when the colonists of Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party in Boston Harbor, Parliament, with the ...

As Elon Musk and his billionaire brethren take power in Trump’s second term, the lack of legal guardrails — and the fading ...

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...