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Here's a look at the Boston Marathon 2025 course map and route information for runners and spectators.
One of the oldest annual marathons in the world, the Boston Marathon is here. Here is the route and how to watch the 129th annual event.
An interactive map of the Boston Marathon Route, with details about landmarks and transportation options along the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Copley Square.
The Freedom Trail is one of Boston's coolest public historical programs. Here's how to walk the trail, plus a look at all 16 stops.
The full suite of tariffs sought by the Trump administration would have created notable upward pressure for already high levels of inflation, a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston ...
The Boston Tea Party was a foundational moment in American history—and it was not without controversy. Honor its 250th anniversary with these surprising facts.
Comparing Boston's past to present with historic media Atlascope provides a database of historic maps, and Peter Vanderwarker documents Boston's changing architecture through photography.
The third Monday in April is a special holiday in Boston, as each year that brings Patriots' Day. That means two things: an early Red Sox home game and the historic Boston marathon.
The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of throwing tea leaves into the city's harbor and community meetings that preceded the defiant act on Dec. 16, 1773.
The Boston Tea Party, a protest against punitive British taxes that led directly to open hostilities in the American Revolution 16 months later, unfolded on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773.
The roots of the Boston Tea Party The Tea Act of 1773 wasn’t the first tax-related legislation to attract the colonists’ ire.