This month, the National Guard will celebrate its 388th birthday. It was on Dec. 13, 1636, that marked the beginning of an ...

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Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the celebration of the first Thanksgiving feast. In the popular mind, the two groups are synonymous. In the story of the ...

The National Guard turned 388 Friday thanks to the Bay State. On that date in 1636, the General Court of the Massachusetts ...

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The U.S. National Guard will be marking its 388th birthday on December 13, 2024, and this is a milestone in a long history ...

Roughly a century and a half before the United States declared its independence, the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s General Court ...

The Boston Mint was officially created on May 27, 1652 to help ensure that businesses in the already commercially successful Massachusetts Bay Colony had an adequate supply of money. At the time ...

Another colony called the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a group of English Puritans, later arrived and eventually absorbed Plymouth to form one royal colony.

Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the celebration of the first Thanksgiving feast. In the popular mind, the two groups are synonymous. In the story of the ...