Boston 1775

According to the Musée des Acadiens des Pubnicos website , Basile Boudrot was born in 1739 in Port Royal, which the British had renamed as A...

The Museum of African American History in Boston has opened a new exhibit called “Black Voices of the Revolution: Liberty, Emancipation, an...

Through Craig Bruce Smith I learned that the coin to be tossed at the start of this year’s Super Bowl has a Revolutionary pedigree. It’s a...

Two hundred fifty years ago, the fifty-eight artillery pieces that Col. Henry Knox had convoyed from Fort Ticonderoga were in Framingham ...

Another document related to the Boston Massacre in the collections of the Boston Public Library is catalogued as “Examination and answers o...

Among the items in the Boston Public Library’s manuscripts department is a 21 Apr 1770 letter from Charles Lloyd (1735–1773) to George Gren...

The corporal arrested after the Boston Massacre is recorded in Massachusetts legal papers as William Wemms . The soldiers ’ trial was th...

In the summer and fall of 1774, New England towns competed to put up Liberty Poles , the taller the better. On 28 July, Ephraim Potter and...

At Historic New England, Erica Lome, curator of collections, shared a behind-the-scenes essay about a warming pan with a Revolutionary heri...

In last week’s talk about the end of the siege of Boston , I recounted the story of the British army raid on the Dorchester peninsula. ...

This weekend brings another set of commemorations of Col. Henry Knox’s artillery train, including a couple of events displaced by last weeke...

America’s History, L.L.C., will hold its thirteenth Annual Conference of the American Revolution in Glen Allen, Virginia, on 27–29 March. ...

Back on 17 January, the New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie drew a historical parallel in an essay for his newsletter : Not since the B...

Back in September, the U.S. Secretary of Education, former wrestling entertainment magnate Linda McMahon, announced that “Patriotic Educatio...