Boston 1775

In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap , Paul Revere recalled a dramatic moment on 21 Apr 1775: The Friday evening after [the Battle o...

John Hancock wasn’t the only person Edmund Quincy wrote to on 22 Apr 1775, just after the start of the Revolutionary War, as quoted yester...

On 22 Apr 1775, three days after the Battle of Lexington and Concord , the Boston merchant and magistrate Edmund Quincy sat down to write ...

After the White House issued its letter illegally demanding control over the Smithsonian Institution , Donald Trump weighed in through his p...

The American Council of Learned Societies is a federation of more than eighty scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social s...

I started this week planning simply to pass on the Professor Buzzkill podcast’s analysis of the “We must hang together, or separately” rema...

Was “We must all hang together, or we will all hang separately” (or the shorter form “We must all hang together, or separately”) an establis...

As quoted here , in April 1776 Carter Braxton wrote home to Virginia from the Continental Congress : “It is a true saying of a Wit—We must ...

Yesterday I alluded to a Professor Buzzkill podcast as my spur to look for the statement “We must hang together or separately” in a letter...

In 2014 and again in 2016 , I noted that the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor Richard Penn was the first Revolutionary figure credited wit...

The Organization of American Historians has issued a statement on the White House attempt, discussed yesterday , to dictate the operation o...

On 12 August, White House officials sent a letter to the Smithsonian Institution stating that it “will be leading a comprehensive internal...

The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire, in partnership with American Revolution Institute in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Johann Neem, author of Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts , Democracy’s Schools: The ...