Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

The respected silversmith and his fellow messengers played a key role in the colonists’ first victory of the Revolutionary ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...

By the mid-19th century, the proud young country wanted a voice of its own. Over the next 50 years, it produced one.

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

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many ...

Bill Chisholm, cofounder of private equity firm STG, paid $6.1 billion for the Boston Celtics. Chisholm is a lifelong Celtics fan from Massachusetts. The sale was the largest ever for a North ...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The NBA’s Boston Celtics are being sold to the head of a California private equity firm for US$6.1 billion, a record price for a US sports franchise ...

In a speech in Boston where she was honoured by the Charitable Irish Society, Prof Richardson said 14 per cent of the US population was now foreign-born, of whom half were now naturalised.

And this paradoxical quality extends into his art in spades. For all his compulsion to elicit a public reaction from just about everything he did, Hugo never exhibited his drawings, barely ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Throngs of green-clad revelers have filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city for the South ...