Boston 1775

Last month the Cambridge Historical Society issued a report on the history of slavery at its headquarters, called the Hooper-Lee-Nichols H...

October is Archeology Month in Massachusetts , and here are a couple of free lectures related to the archeology of the eighteenth century....

Harvard’s alumni magazine recently ran Anthony J. Connors’s story about Andrew Craigie (1754-1821). He had no real connection to the colle...

The Massachusetts Provincial Congress ’s records say that on 26 June 1775 the body voted That the president’s house in Cambridge , excepti...

In 1855, Washington Irving published the volume of his long biography of George Washington that brought the general to Cambridge on 2 July...

The Northeast Museum Services Center of the National Park Service has an Archeology Lab, and that lab has a blog . Back in February it poste...