Boston 1775

In the HUB History podcast episode “Drinker, Draftsman, Soldier, Spy,” Jake Sconyers quotes my remark on how difficult it is to track Capt....

The Sestercentennial of Col. Henry Knox ’s mission to Lake Champlain in the winter of 1775–76 is coming up, and Fort Ticonderoga is on it....

It used to be that when two historical organizations scheduled talks on the same night you had to choose between them. Now, thanks to live...

The National Council on Public History and the American Association for State and Local History will hold a joint conference in Providence...

The Benjamin Franklin House in London has issued a call for papers for a conference on “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, to be h...

The Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies is offering a Sestercentennial tour of sites in the siege of Boston for teachers. I’ll be...

On Saturday, 11 October, the Wright Tavern in Concord will commemorate the Massachusetts Provincial Congress meeting nearby in 1774 by ho...

At the end of the summer Revolutionary Spaces and the National Museum of Mental Health Project debuted an online exhibit titled “Patriot, ...

On Wednesday, 8 October, Old North Illuminated will present an online talk by Liz Covart, creator and host of the Ben Franklin’s World podc...

I started this run of postings about bell-ringing in mid-eighteenth-century Boston quoting the town’s sextons on when they rang the bells ...

Yesterday I described the arrival in 1745 of a set of eight bells from Gloucester, England, for the steeple of Christ Church, now also call...

On 25 July 1745 the Boston News-Letter reported the arrival of a new type of sound in Boston—or at least the potential for one. The newsp...

Yesterday I looked at the daily schedule for ringing the bells of Boston’s meeting-houses in the 1740s. I presume those bells also rang...

In my research into Thomas Williston , sexton of the Old Brick Meeting-House from the 1740s to the early 1770s, I came across a petition in...