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Founded in 1833, Oberlin became the first ... Williams moved between Boston, Salem and Plymouth Colony, winning followers, irritating opponents and provoking controversy. Banished from the ...

A group attempting to escape religious persecution in England sailed for the New World and landed at Plymouth ... British colony in North America was Jamestown in Virginia, founded by Captain ...

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Madelaine Drohan is a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

A new Nordstrom Rack is officially coming to the South Shore. The Plymouth zoning board unanimously approved plans to build a new 27,000-square-foot location of the discount luxury retailer at Colony ...

and he still sent his laundry out. When we meet Emelie, the sometime narrator of Annika Norlin’s debut novel, “The Colony,” she’s already gone full Thoreau. Modern city life — “the shops and the cars ...

This series reveals spectacular stories about Massachusetts' revolution against the British crown 250 years ago.

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