Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

I desire, even with profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report what hints I ...

Leading historians, scientists and environmentalists are calling on Gov. Maura Healey to stop the expansion of private jet service at Hanscom Field in Bedford.

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.

“Free colonists, who are living in the colonies in the 1760s, think they're part of the greatest empire since Rome because ...

On the other hand, if your first reaction to seeing the image was wondering why the hand is holding nothing but air, then you ...

He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...

Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he ...

Whether it's minutemen gathering on the Old North Bridge, or Samuel Prescott riding his horse across it, these reenactments remind Massachusetts of where we come from.

Today, many people do not know Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many of those who do, consider him at best a 19th-century transcendentalist or, at worst, the Dale Carnegie of belles lettres. But Emerson ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the “the shot heard ‘round the world,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, the first ...