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Massachusetts
Latest News & Articles
First Shots on Road to Independence -
The first fighting during the American War of Independence. While the action itself was on a relatively small scale, it marked the moment when the last chances of a peaceful resolution of...
Revere's Ride: Shoddy History, Great Literature -
Hardly a man is now alive who hasn't encountered the opening lines of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's most famous poem: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of...
Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin's Controversial Inventor -
Born on December 8, 1765, in Westboro, Massachusetts, Eli Whitney studied at Yale before going on to invent the cotton gin, a device that highly streamlined the process of extracting fiber...
More Articles
- John Adams: Defending British Soldiers - James Grant, Command Post
- Shocking Savagery of Early U.S. History - Ron Rosenbaum, Smithsonian
- Who's to Blame for Boston Massacre? - Douglas Linder, UMKC
- Did Pilgrims Run Out of Beer? - Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope
- The Myth of Plymouth Rock - Rick Shenkman, History News Network
- Puritans and Founding Massachusetts Bay Colony - U.S. History
- Did Borden Take Axe to Her Parents? - Russell Aiuto, Crime Library
- Unanswered Questions at Chappaquiddick - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
- Did Lizzie Borden Get Away with Murder? - Douglas Linder, UMKC
- Bunker Hill: A Valuable Defeat for Colonials - Charlestown Online
- 'Under God' to Stay in Pledge - M. Finucane & J. Ellement, Boston Globe
- Salem Witch Trials Roil Early Colony - Douglas Linder, UMKC