Massachusetts is filled with rich history. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by John Winthrop, and Massachusetts officially became a ...

Mary Evans Picture Library / Everett Collection Few corners of American history have been as exhaustively or insistently explored as the nine months during which the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...

For all the notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the ... newly-appointed governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. For four long years, Mather had been in England, leading ...