On this day 171 years ago, federal officials escorted a man in chains downtown to remove him from Massachusetts. Anthony ...

Documentarian Ken Burns is heading to Boston in April Burns will be in Massachusetts to discuss his forthcoming documentary on the American Revolution Burns is a New Hampshire resident ...

In 1854, he took steps to find freedom. While working in Richmond, Burns boarded a ship heading north, to the city of Boston. Burns arrived in Boston in March -- a fugitive, but free. This new ...