The arrival of the Lyon from Bristol, England, brought joyful relief to Puritan leaders in Boston on Feb. 5, 1631. First, because the ship carried Roger Williams, a Puritan minister …

The Boston slave riot of 1854 was a contest for the soul of Boston in which slavery supporters won the battle but lost the war. An angry mob of abolitionists …

The Great New England Earthquake of 1663 collapsed walls and frightened colonists from Quebec City to New York, but Puritan ministers and Jesuit priests saw a silver lining. People flocked …

  [jpshare]In the fall of 1951, 22-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., settled into his Botolph Street apartment to begin doctoral studies at Boston University. The word ‘freedom’ was very much …

Abby Kelley came to Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1843 and turned the town upside down. Day after day she delivered passionate speeches against slavery and for women’s rights. She wasn’t …

Emily Greene Balch didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize for getting fired from Wellesley College, but it must have been a nice consolation prize. It was 1918 and Emily Greene …