Today our Nation commemorates the 255th anniversary of the Boston Massacre—the singular event that ignited the movement for American independence. To this day, it stands as a defining crucible of the ...

Michell Wu, mayor of sanctuary Boston, should remind Congress in her testimony before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday that it falls on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. The committee, ...

Tempers were running high in Boston as British troops struggled to deal with increasingly belligerent American colonists unhappy with British taxes and policies. Those tempers boiled over on March 5, ...

Contrasting accounts of the 1770 Boston Massacre from both Patriot and British perspectives, followed by the Boston Tea Party and Parliament's harsh response. Includes the Continental Congress's first ...

On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event ...

Lewis Jr. Professor of History and the Liberal Arts. Zabin’s book The Boston Massacre: A Family History reportedly caught the eye of Burns’s two codirectors Sarah Botstein and David Scmidt. “Because ...

The Boston Public Library houses an extraordinary collection of rare and historic documents, including treasured copies of the Declaration of Independence. Central to this collection are several July ...

From Paul Revere to present-day commentary, BPL’s new exhibit connects the past to modern movements ...

A bloody clash between Bostonians and the British army leaves five dead in the Boston Massacre. On October 1st, 1768, General Gage and the British Army arrive in Boston to begin their occupation.