Puleo's book is a biography of Charles Sumner, a U.S. senator who was a prominent voice in the antislavery movement ahead of the Civil War.

Gov. Maura Healey released a “comprehensive housing plan” Thursday morning, outlining strategies to lower costs and build 220 ...

A unit of Harvard University's Law Library says it is releasing an archive of more than 300,000 government data sets, aiming ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey recently signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

The Leaning Tower of Pizza [U.S. Library of Congress] was among the gems found in John Margolies' Photographs of Roadside ...

The shortest days of the year are finally behind us for now, as Boston gets ready to see its first 5 p.m. sunset of the year.

Elysium Furnace Works Kicks Off 2025 Season With A Solo Piano Festival, Beginning With Dave Burrell on Saturday, March 1 in ...

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)(AP) The 27-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested Tuesday after Capitol police officers found him leaving the Library of Congress and walking toward his car ...

A Massachusetts man who toured the U.S. Capitol ... later alerted to the man's presence and located him outside the Library of Congress after he had completed the full tour of Congress.