Springfield has long been recognized as a City of Firsts. For instance, it was the Duryea brothers who invented the first American gasoline-powered car. Or, it was the first place in all the world to ...

It's hard to read Mike Dobbs' new Springfield history book without a sense of loss, and a sharp-edged nostalgia for what the city once was. Flip through the book, Springfield—which is organized around ...

Penny postcards - some more than a century-old - contain images of Greater Springfield and the Pioneer Valley before the era of interstate highways and concrete towers. The Lyman and Merrie Wood ...