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The Old State House in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) A film called "Bounty" is showing on the second floor of the Old State House.In it, members of Maine's Penobscot tribe talk about scalp bounties ...
A small but energized crowd gathered on Boston Massacre Plaza Sunday morning, eager to catch a glimpse of Boston’s iconic lion and unicorn statues, which will once again shine from high atop the ...
Procession kicks off from Boston City Hall Plaza at 9 a.m. and meanders to the Old State House for the annual reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
As King James II and King Charles I of England look down from their portraits, a group of men are discussing how to respond to the previous day’s deadly attack on Boston citizens. The date is ...
Check out photos of each item inside Boston's Old State House time capsule from the early 1900s. The time capsule's items were revealed on October 14.
In 1770, just outside the Old State House’s walls, British troops killed five Colonists in what would become known as the Boston Massacre. Not long after, on July 18, 1776, the first ...
The Bostonian Society, which operates a museum at the Old State House, said sometime next week it hopes to open a time capsule from 1901 placed in the head of a copper statue of a lion that has ...
Archivists with the Bostonian Society provided the first images of the contents of the 113-year-old time capsule that was found inside the Old State House’s lion statue.
A huge crowd gathered Monday morning for a reading of the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the Old State House--the same place it was first read from in 1776.
Mark your calendars, Bostonians. On next Thursday, October 9th, the 113-year-old time capsule recently found in the head of the Old State House’s golden lion statue will be opened.
Two iconic statues returned to Boston's historic Old State House Sunday following a complete restoration. The lion and unicorn statues were restored after a 1901 time capsule was discovered in the ...
A Boston time capsule dating to 1901 contained letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, political campaign buttons and a presidential message on U.S. foreign relations, archivists said Wednesday.
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