On a snowy March evening 251 years ago, rising tensions in the city between U.S. colonists and British soldiers boiled over into a violent brawl on King Street: the Boston Massacre. It’s a day that ...

An engraving shows British troops firing on citizens in Boston on March 5, 1770, in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. (Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division ...

Join us as we stroll along the historic Freedom Trail in Boston, exploring the deep roots of American history. 🏙️ Experience the sights and stories that led to the Boston Massacre and shaped ...

Advisory: This story includes descriptions of violence, abuse and oppression of Black and Indigenous people that were the norm in colonial-era Boston. Every tour of Boston's Freedom Trail stops at the ...

On March 5, 1770, a group of British soldiers open fired on a group of Boston citizens, killing five. This event, the Boston Massacre, was one in a series of crises that led many American colonists to ...

Michell Wu, mayor of sanctuary Boston, should remind Congress in her testimony before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday that it falls on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre.