Boston 1775

Here’s another series of online lectures exploring the Revolution during the Sestercentennial, this time from Historic Deerfield. Sunday,...

The National Parks of Boston and the Boston Public Library are teaming up to offer some online lectures for the Sestercentennial. The an...

Back here , I quoted Edmund Quincy’s story of his father, little Josiah Quincy , starting to study Latin at the Phillips Academy in Andover ...

The upstart rural academy in Andover that became the prestigious Phillips Andover prep school published records of exactly who attended. O...

Edmund Quincy wrote The Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts (1867) by drawing on his father’s writings and his own memories. The fathe...

I had a fine time speaking to the Essex Historical Society and guests in Connecticut last Sunday, and that Sestercentennial series of prog...

The Sestercentennial commemorations of Col. Henry Knox ’s mission to bring more heavy artillery to the siege lines around Boston will mov...

Three months and a day after he first reported a convict escaped from Connecticut ’s New-Gate Prison , keeper John Viets wrote out a second...

At the end of February 1774, Connecticut ’s New-Gate Prison was once again ready to house convicted criminals . The first prisoner sent t...

Exactly one month after a New Haven court sentenced John Ensign to ten years inside Connecticut ’s new prison at Simsbury, as reported yes...

On 26 Nov 1773, the Connecticut Gazette of New London reported this legal news: NEW HAVEN, Nov. 19 A few days since, a young fellow, who...

Last month I broke off a series of postings about three men Gen. George Washington sent to Simsbury, Connecticut , to be locked up in the ...

In 1775 the British artist John Hamilton Mortimer issued a series of prints titled Twelve Characters from Shakespeare . One of those port...

Shepherd is a website founded by Ben Fox to provide a forum for book recommendations, like “little notes from the [indie bookstore] staff a...