The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) is asking that all millwork in the original part of the Jones Library be preserved in some form, and for all windows in the expanded and renovated library ...

The holiday hasn’t been celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday of Feb. 22, or any other president’s birthday, for more than 50 years. Presidents Day became the popular name after the holiday was ...

Nearly all of the remaining major 250th anniversaries in Massachusetts will happen over the next 13 months, coinciding with ...

Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...

(WICS) — The Sangamon County Historical Society ... The Belles Group (Rees Carillon Society) to help produce an educational video to be used in the classroom for K-6th grade students to tie in with ...

Research on Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women offers a poignant window into a past we only thought we knew.

The private nonprofit organization was founded in 1871 and was designated the state’s official and historical society in 1979. It was one of California’s oldest historical organizations ...

The society, a private nonprofit organization established in 1871 and designated the state’s official historical society in 1979, is one of California’s oldest historical organizations.

Start with the fact that KHS wasn’t even the first historical society in the state. In 1855, Zollner said, the territorial legislature authorized the creation of a “Historical and ...

"Officials here follow the law. We are not a sanctuary state," Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey told reporters when she was asked about new immigration policy from President Trump at a news ...

ST. JOHN — The St. John Historical Society has a new place to call home — an office upstairs at the St. John Properties Building that’s to the right of Mongoose Junction. “I’m very ...

Gov. Maura Healey plans to close a state-operated public health hospital in Canton, her administration confirmed Tuesday afternoon. The Massachusetts Nurses Association, which first disclosed the ...