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

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

I’m Bob Seay and this is a Radio Readers BookByte from High Plains Public Radio. I’ve been reading Sarah Vowell’s book, The ...

The last word (maybe) on the long-standing belief that lawmakers overlook the western part of the state — and what can be ...

Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, spoke mostly about the need for unity in our polarized society and for ...

Ten years after the Pilgrims first settled near Plymouth Rock, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was officially founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by Gov. John Winthrop.

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

At one point, the settlement seemed poised “to become the city of destiny,” one historian wrote. But it didn’t last.

The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which ...

According to Wikipedia, Kittery was first settled by Europeans in 1623. It was first incorporated as a town in 1647. Since ...