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Before the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, the spirit of rebellion was already rising across Massachusetts, sometimes

During the American Revolution, Martha’s Vineyard found itself in a difficult position: geographically exposed, economically vulnerable, and politically caught between

Image credit: National Museum of the United States Navy Before there was a United States Navy, there was the Hannah,

Image credit: The Kennedy Center Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most

Lloyd Lillie created this statue of Katharine Lee Bates, which sits on the front lawn of the Falmouth Public Library.

While Massachusetts was a hotbed of revolutionary fervor, the island of Nantucket charted a very different course, one guided not

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