King Philip’s War: The Conflict That Nearly Destroyed New England
The brutal 1675–1676 conflict transformed Native and colonial New England and left scars that shaped Boston’s future.
Read MoreThe Great Fire of 1676: The Night Boston Burned
A devastating seventeenth-century fire exposed just how vulnerable early Boston was to flame, crowding, and wooden construction.
Read MoreJohn Winthrop’s Boston: The City Upon a Hill
John Winthrop’s famous vision helped shape Boston’s civic mythology—but the reality of Puritan Massachusetts was far more complicated.
Read More1630: The Ships That Brought Boston Into Being
In 1630, a Puritan migration transformed a small peninsula into the nucleus of one of English America’s most consequential towns.
Read MoreBefore Boston: The World the Massachusett People Knew
Before Boston was a colonial town, this coast was home to Indigenous communities with deep political, economic, and spiritual ties to the land and sea.
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