Boston 1775

Some years back, I mentioned Simeon Potter ’s dispute with John Usher, but I was relying on a secondary source that I’ve come to see as unre...

Rhode Island actually began its military build-up back in December 1774, as detailed in a letter from former governor Samuel Ward that I q...

As soon as he heard about the shooting at Lexington , James Warren , delegate from Plymouth to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress , pass...

As I quoted last week , on 23 Apr 1775 the Massachusetts Provincial Congress resolved to raise an army of 30,000 men, 16,400 of them coming...

On 21 April 1775, two days after fatal fighting began, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress ’s committee of safety adopted this oath for me...

Registration is open for the third Pursuit of History Weekend that I’ve helped to program, this one on “The Siege and Liberation of Bosto...

Mother Jones just shared David Corn and Tim Murphy’s article “Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III...

Many accounts of George Washington ’s arrival in Cambridge in 1775 say that he converted the ragtag New England militia into the Continen...

Among the presentations at this Saturday’s commemoration of Gen. George Washington ’s arrival in Cambridge is a talk by Longfellow House a...

We met Thomas James as a major in the Royal Artillery stationed in New York in 1765. After he vowed to protect the stamped paper and said...

On Saturday, 5 July, the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site will host the Sestercentennial commemoration of...

In 1775 John Graves Simcoe was a lieutenant in the 35th Regiment of Foot, which had been sent to Boston. Simcoe would go on to a notable ...

Here’s an entry from Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and Others, from the Manuscript Files of the Late...

This is a portrait of Mary Hubbard (1734–1808) painted by John Singleton Copley about 1764 and now owned by the Art Institute of Chicago. ...