John Hancock was first to sign Declaration of Independence, the first governor of Massachusetts and president of the Second ...

The property, which was named after John's younger brother Ebenezer, was built in the mid-1760s, before the American ...

Conceived as a broad public service, the postal service was key to US independence, Western expansion and ensuring an ...

GBH in Boston announced Tuesday that it will lay off 13 employees who work on the history documentary series American ...

A wealthy merchant with a penchant for luxury, the Founder with a famous signature contributed more to the revolution than ...

We celebrate Juneteenth, the national holiday honoring the time when Black Americans found out they were free. Coincidentally, on June 19 in Maine, this newspaper printed a story of how a white woman, ...

The Amistad Research Center, located on Tulane University’s campus but unaffiliated with the school, was founded in 1966 to ...

The General Services Administration notifies Harvard it is conducting an official review “of all Federal contracts and grants,” with “greater than $8.7 billion of ...

The Recorder is featuring weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the ...

Wikimedia Commons/John Trumbull The 1776 Declaration of Independence Signing Most people think the Declaration of ...

Harvard University is in federal court Monday to make the case that President Donald Trump’s administration illegally cut ...