1774-1787: Philadelphia is the site of the Continental ... 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775: Peter Salem, a black Patriot, fights at Lexington and Concord.

Boston, the capital of Massachusetts and the largest city in New England, features neighborhoods with names and identities that still hold strong to their colonial beginnings. Some neighborhoods ...

Boston is a city of stories. The regal names of squares and streets ... I first glimpsed it as I crossed the Mystic River in 1774, spying 13 British boats glide silently through its dark waters. I saw ...