Boston 1775

In August 1822, Timothy Pickering invited John Adams to do something the retired President really liked doing: explaining how he was clos...

In August 1822, Timothy Pickering wrote to John Adams with questions about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence . Pickering...

On this date 250 years ago , the Continental Congress was taking the weekend off from formal sessions. The Congress’s proposed Declaratio...

The current issue of Archaeology magazine includes a dispatch about the City of Boston’s Archaeology Department recent work in Charlestown...

Two venerable Boston museums are unveiling big reworked exhibit spaces for the Sestercentennial. At Revolutionary Spaces’ Old South Meetin...

Adams National Historical Park will host a full week of events commemorating the Sestercentennial of the Declaration of Independence, which...

Back in April the Concord Bridge published a nice retrospective profile of Robert Gross , author of The Minutemen and Their World . Publi...

Earlier this spring the Army Historical Foundation shared Alexander Cain’s detailed article “‘The Firing Begun on Boath Sides’: The Battle ...

For one last posting on the label “Breed’s Hill,” I’ll share some thoughts on whether that label matters. These days, it’s mostly useful ...

As I quoted yesterday , in July 1775 the Massachusetts Provincial Congress officially deemed the provincial fortification of Breed’s Hil...

After the British army drove provincial troops off the Charlestown peninsula on 17 June 1775, the Massachusetts committee of safety propo...

Yesterday I quoted Samuel Gray ’s 11 July 1775 description of the Battle of Bunker Hill , based on what he called “my own knowledge.” Gra...

In his History of the Siege of Boston , Richard Frothingham published a letter about the Battle of Bunker Hill written by Samuel Gray in Ro...

Yesterday I started to dig into a recent social-media post by the City of Boston Archaeology Department about when the term “Breed’s Hill...