Historians have put together an app that guides users to significant sites around the city, just in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding.

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

He also gave the map a visual overhaul, introducing a much wider range of colours and symbols to bring the street plans to life. The end results are maps of Tudor and medieval London far more ...

A Boston native and current University of Oklahoma student plotted every U.S. hurricane landfall since 1851, totaling 307. The map reveals a surprising truth about New England: this region, known ...

Boston is a city of stories. The regal names of squares and streets, the faded bronze plaques nestled within brick facades, the rivers decussating its low hills; Boston is a composite ...

An earthquake just off Maine Monday was felt in Boston and into Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire, according to a "shake map." ...

This is drawer number 21 from the manuscript geographic file of the Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department. It contains typed catalog ...

Felix Mizioznikov/Shutterstock Plymouth Rock carries along its stony back an essential piece of United States history. This ...

View The Mitred Minuet. From The Royal American Magazine, Vol. I, number 10, [Boston,] October 1774 (1774) By Revere Paul; prints and drawings; 120 x 183 mm (plate), 150 x 217 mm (sheet) 110 x 175 mm ...

Comparing Boston's past to present with historic media Atlascope provides a database of historic maps, and Peter Vanderwarker documents Boston's changing architecture through photography.