Boston 1775

By this date 250 years ago , Col. Henry Knox had checked in with his commander, Gen. George Washington , in Cambridge . The artillery th...

In late 1774 the British 7th Regiment, known as the Royal Fusiliers, was stationed southwest of Montréal, guarding the frontier of the Brit...

Bibliography abhors a vacuum. Once William Tudor, Jr., suggested in print that “General Prescott” deserved credit for writing the 1774 pam...

After the British army and the New England provincials went to war in April 1775, people stopped worrying about political pamphlets like A...

The pamphlet titled A Letter from a Veteran, to the Officers of the Army Encamped at Boston didn’t specify an author, printer , or place ...

Yesterday I quoted from a pamphlet titled A Letter from a Veteran, to the Officers of the Army Encamped at Boston , which appeared in the ...

Looking at the Rev. Charles Inglis ’s political writing in 1774 led me to another pamphlet from that year: A Letter from a Veteran, to the ...

On Sunday, 18 January, Emily Sneff will speak to the Essex ( Connecticut ) Historical Society and guests on “The Woman Who Printed the Decla...

Sestercentennial commemorations of the progress of Col. Henry Knox ’s artillery convoys across western Massachusetts continue this weekend...

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...