Boston King had been born a slave in South Carolina. Boston King escaped from slavery to join the British forces during the American Revolution. (As portrayed by Derwin Jordan in Canada ...

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

Almost 300 years after the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth is still Boston strong. While your friends and family may be ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress In 1773, when the colonists of Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party in Boston ... declared independence. Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring ...

Martin Luther King will lead a march from Roxbury to Boston Common a week from Friday to protest racial imbalance in schools and housing. Starting from Carter Playground, at the corner of Columbus ...