Since the Stamp Act of 1765, street violence in Boston had become commonplace. Riots and protests had been instrumental in securing the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766. Street protests continued on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Channel 9 is honoring Crispus Attucks, a sailor who was among the first to give his life for American freedom. Attucks died in ...

York's Crispus Attucks History and Culture Center opened in May. The center is named after a Black man who was the first killed in the Boston Massacre.

History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of ...

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, ...

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 ...

March 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1770, British troops killed five colonials in the so-called Boston Massacre, one of the events that led to the American Revolution. History buffs relived ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, Dr. Joseph Warren climbed through a window of Boston’s Old South Church to avoid the scrum of British soldiers nearby. Warren was there to deliver an annual speech ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. It began with the "Shot heard 'round the world" on April 19, 1775 in Lexington and it marked the end ...

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, ...

Lucy meets Prof Serena Zabin in Boston to learn more about the Boston Massacre. Lucy meets Prof Serena Zabin at the Old State House in Boston to learn more about the events that may have unfolded on ...