Boston 1775

Since September 2025 I’ve been following the dispute over displays at the President’s House, part of Independence National Historical Park ...

As recounted yesterday , on 21 Oct 1776 Boston’s committee of correspondence, inspection, and safety questioned Elizabeth and Mary Hill ab...

Back in April I wrote a series of postings about John Hill , his wife Elizabeth (?), and their daughter, captured on board the brig Elizabe...

On Sunday, 19 July, the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge will host a commemoration called “H...

History Camp Boston will take place on 7–9 August, with the main gathering on Saturday the 8th. As in recent years, the main venue will b...

This is a very busy summer for Plays in Place , which works with historic sites to create new plays built on their past, informed by their a...

Theaters on either side of Massachusetts are offering Revolutionary musicals in this Independence Day season. Through Sunday, 19 July, at ...

On 9 July 1776, 250 years ago today , Heinrich Miller ’s Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote newspaper printed the first translation of the Declar...

As quoted yesterday , Edward Rutledge hoped that John Jay would return to the Continental Congress by 1 July so he could help to argue a...

Last week I shared sources detailing how the Declaration of Independence was drafted. This post jumps back a few days to a last-ditch ef...

John Dunlap printed official broadsides of the Declaration of Independence for the Continental Congress , but other printers were issuing...

The Continental Congress approved its edited text of the Declaration of Independence in the middle of the day on 4 July 1776. The delega...

Two hundred fifty years ago today, the Continental Congress finished polishing the Declaration of Independence and voted to approve the f...

A few days after Timothy Pickering delivered an Independence Day oration in Salem in 1823, casting doubt on Thomas Jefferson ’s importanc...