Boston 1775

As recounted yesterday, as of May 1777 John Cochran was on British-held Long Island in New York while his wife Sarah was still back home ...

On 3 Feb 1787, Sarah Cochran appeared before the Loyalists Commission in Saint John, New Brunswick . She described how her husband John ...

The Rev. Jeremy Belknap ’s account of how Gen. Thomas Gage ’s plan for the march to Concord leaked out to the Patriots, quoted yesterday , ...

Here’s the first part of my blog interview with Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the new book Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution . Q...

This week Deadline.com broke the news that Warner Bros. paid a fairly hefty sum for a movie option on Nathaniel Philbrick’s upcoming book, ...

Yet another version of the Abijah Willard – William Prescott anecdote I’ve been discussing appeared in The Prescott Memorial , a genealog...

Yesterday I quoted what I think is the earliest printed version of the story of Abijah Willard recognizing his relative William Prescott ...

In The Whites of Their Eyes , his new book on the Battle of Bunker Hill , Paul Lockhart treats the story ( dramatized here ) of Abijah Willa...

After one session of the Boston Early American History Seminar this year, someone—perhaps Brendan McConville or Alan Rogers —suggested tha...