A disobedient child, of course, must be punished. Courtesy: Library of Congress In 1773, when the colonists of Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party in Boston Harbor, Parliament, with the ...

according to the Library of Congress. The law, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on March 19, 1918, also established a standard time and gave the federal government the authority to establish ...

Republican Congressman Rich McCormick proposed in an interview that free school lunches be removed from schools and children ...

U.S. President Donald Trump told global business leaders on Thursday they should manufacture products in the United States to ...

We are exiting the era of hyperpolitics. All flames — even the hottest and most spectacular — eventually burn out. Perhaps ...

On April 29, 2016, the Rail Users’ Network (RUN) held a conference in Boston with the theme: “Who’s Looking Out for You? The ...

James Madison suggested the idea of developing a congressional library at the new capital Washington City. Before that, the ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday restored a U.S. agency rule restricting lobster and Jonah crab fishing off the ...

Federal aid is a major source of revenue for states. According to Pew Charitable Trusts, federal grants represented 36.4% of ...

The shortest days of the year are finally behind us for now, as Boston gets ready to see its first 5 p.m. sunset of the year.

At the Chicopee Public Library on Front Street, leadership from the MBLC, Massachusetts Library System and the Central and Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing consortium, or CW-MARS ...