Boston 1775

This weekend brings another set of commemorations of Col. Henry Knox’s artillery train, including a couple of events displaced by last weeke...

America’s History, L.L.C., will hold its thirteenth Annual Conference of the American Revolution in Glen Allen, Virginia, on 27–29 March. ...

Back on 17 January, the New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie drew a historical parallel in an essay for his newsletter : Not since the B...

Back in September, the U.S. Secretary of Education, former wrestling entertainment magnate Linda McMahon, announced that “Patriotic Educatio...

Back in September , I shared news reports of the Trump White House complaining about signs at the Presidential House site in Independence Na...

On 15 January, Prof. Johann Neem shared an essay titled “The Problem of Violence in Authoritarian America.” Here’s a sample: No American sh...

Last April I spoke at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum by invitation of the Paul Revere House on the topic “The Reasons for Revere’s Ride.” ...

On Thursday, 29 January, I’ll contribute to the discourse about Col. Henry Knox ’s artillery trek with the talk on “‘A Fine Train of Artil...

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 ...