Boston 1775

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...

At last we come to John Adams ’s dramatic description of how he—and he alone—convinced Thomas Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Indepen...

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 ...