History & Culture

For more than 200 years, Massachusetts has been fascinated with the codfish.

A pathway within the Minute Man National Historic Park marks early skirmishes in the American Revolutionary War.

Accusations of witchcraft in Boston were soon followed by mass hysteria in Salem.

A walking path along the 2.5 mile Freedom Trail marks sites significant in the American colonists' fight for independence.

Cambridge pays tribute to its African American heroes with a marked walking trail that goes through Harvard Square and other neighborhoods.

A route once traveled by Native Americans that runs parallel to Cape Cod's shore is now home to small artisan shops and inns.

Near the tip of the Cape sits a monument dedicated to the Pilgrim settlers.

In "Cry Innocent," spectatators get caught up in the frenzy of a witch trial, and then vote innocent or guilty.