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Ninety years ago today, in the second floor of an unassuming home on Adams Street in Milton, George H.W. Bush was born. His birthday gives us occasion […]

As historical figures go, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. have a lot in common. They became national leaders during the 1960s, possessed […]

You might have expected the first pre-game ceremony to officially retire two Red Sox numbers to be a big affair. It was May 29, 1984, and […]

On May 22, 1942, Ted Williams ended months of what had become an all-consuming story in the sports world: he announced that he had enlisted […]

One-hundred-forty years ago this week, on May 16, 1874, residents of the Mill River Valley in Western Massachusetts heard an enormous boom. The dam that held […]

In the city of Boston, the office of Mayor looms large with the characters who have occupied it. There’s Tom Menino of course, who dominated […]

It was 30 years ago, in 1984, that Jim Koch brewed his first batch of an old family beer recipe. At the time, he worked […]

On Monday, nearly half of the 35,000 runners participating in the Boston Marathon will be women. There will be 396 women named Jennifer alone. There […]

We remember the year 1861 in American history largely because it marked the start of the Civil War. But up here in Massachusetts, the era […]

Any local student of history will remember that George Washington, head of the newly formed Continental Army, once drove the British out of Boston. Fewer […]

Boston and New York are interconnected enough that there’s a good chance you’ll talk by phone (or text, SnapChat, Gchat, or however the kids are […]

On March 13, 1677,  the imperial dreams of Massachusetts came to fruition. For on that day, our colony  bought Maine for £1,250 sterling. This was maine-ly […]

In the 1930s, Harvard President James Bryant Conant went looking for way to predict the college performance of Harvard applicants. He settled on a newly […]

At 5:40 p.m. on February 28, 1935, Babe Ruth stepped off the train at Back Bay Station to play baseball in Boston once again, this […]

As Olympic sports go, women’s ice hockey should have special resonance here in Boston. The U.S. will face off against Canada for Gold tonight, and […]