Raylene Hinz-Penner here, a Liberal, Kansas native, retired English professor now living in Newton, with a glimpse into Wordy ...

In 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I. In 1692, a doctor in ...

In the 1630s, proprietors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to settle the Northampton area, spreading into the land that ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

Sara Vowell’s 2009 best seller, The Wordy Shipmates: a book that details the 1630 New World arrival of the Massachusetts Bay ...

In Massachusetts Bay Colony the first execution was in 1630 ... was on the verge of losing its liberty. He said that the history of using punishment by death (e.g., the Romans, 20 years of ...

The right to pursue happiness is a core American principle. It informs our special kind of individualism and our big heart and explains why we generously give people ...

Two hundred fifty years ago this month, on Feb. 9, 1775, the British Parliament declared the Massachusetts Bay Colony to be ...

In 1690, the first paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to finance a military expedition to Canada.

Dairy farming has been a part of Massachusetts agriculture ever since European settlers brought cows to the Plymouth Colony in 1624. As permanent settlements were established, cattle played an ...

In 1623, former Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow rushed west from Plymouth to visit Ousamequin, the Pilgrims’ Pokanoket ...