Boston 1775

After his brother Ezra Bushnell fell ill, the inventor David Bushnell asked Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons to send three men who might be abl...

On 2 Feb 1776, David Bushnell journeyed from his workshop in Saybrook, Connecticut , to Lebanon to meet with Gov. Jonathan Trumbull and hi...

On 31 Aug 1775, the Rev. Benjamin Boardman , serving as a chaplain to Connecticut troops at the siege of Boston , wrote in his diary: I co...

On Friday, 18 September, the Massachusetts Historical Society will host the New England Quarterly Symposium on Environmental Histories of N...

Since this is the anniversary of the 1774 “Powder Alarm” in Cambridge , I’m quoting from a letter that discusses that event and the surroun...

On 1 Sept 1776, 250 years ago today , North Carolina brigadier general Griffith Rutherford wrote a letter to the body that had commissioned...

Earlier this summer the National Park Service issued a series of reports about the triumphal arch proposed for Memorial Circle in Washington...

On the morning of 30 Aug 1776, 250 years ago today , Gen. William Heath was stationed at Kingsbridge, New York , on the Hudson River just n...

Robert Parkinson is the author of The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution , its distillation as Thirteen Cloc...

After I started reading intently about the Revolution in New England, one of the first living historians I remember chatting with was Henry ...

On 9–10 Oct 2026, Fort Tionderoga will host a Special 250th Conference on “Arnold’s Defeat or Ultimate Victory?: Perspectives on the 1776 C...

Last month the Independent newspaper reported on the identification of remains from the Revolutionary War using a relatively new method. ...

A new online resource of information about the start of the Revolutionary War launched last month: J. Bohy Historical Consulting . This is...

Back in 2017, the Writer’s Bone website featured a very complimentary review of The Road to Concord by site co-founder Daniel Ford. I th...