Boston 1775

Even as I muse on the value of A.I. programming for transcribing historical handwritten documents, the Fold3 service announces: We’ve unloc...

Another of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s ongoing crowd-sourced transcription projects is Gen. William Heath’s manuscript diary . ...

Among the Massachusetts Historical Society’s ongoing crowd-sourced transcription projects is the Mercy Otis Warren Papers , including both ...

The Massachusetts Historical Society is one of the institutions that’s taken a crowd-sourced approach to transcribing significant collection...

I’ve been doing test drives on the Clements Library’s machine-made transcriptions of documents from the Thomas Gage Papers , seeing how us...

I plucked out a couple more documents from the digitized Thomas Gage Papers to see how well the automated handwriting-recognition program T...

Yesterday I described how the Clements Library in Michigan has provided transcripts of handwritten documents in the Thomas Gage Papers. ...

I don’t think Boston 1775 would exist without Google Books, which launched the year before I began blogging. Being able to search for phr...

Last May, I wrote a series of postings about Dr. Preserved Clap of Hadley . This was probably the most that anyone had written about Dr. ...

In June of 2025 I attended the Sestercentennial reenactment of the Battle of Bunker Hill in Gloucester . While walking from one site to...

Before the Revolutionary War, Hopestill Capen regularly advertised British dry goods in Boston newspapers . After his two years in jail o...

In May 1778, the Massachusetts General Court began a new legislative year. On 17 September, Council member John Pitts brought the lower...

We left the Boston merchant Hopestill Capen locked up in the Boston jail in mid-1777. As a Sandemanian , Capen had stayed loyal to the B...

On Thursday, 1 October, Revolutionary Spaces’s Old South Meeting House will host a showing of Leslie Askew’s documentary In Search of Phill...