Boston 1775

The Battle of Lake George on 8 Sept 1755 probably involved fewer than 3,500 men, a little more on the British side than the French . Each c...

Earlier in the month I reported on Fara Dabhoiwala’s work on the portrait of Francis Williams based on two news articles. I’ve now read P...

Brigadier general Simon Fraser had a long career in the British army before dying in the Battle of Saratoga . Even so, it appears that G...

The main thrust of the American Revolution Institute blog posting I pointed to yesterday concerns the subject of the engraving titled “The...

Here’s a news story from London that caught my eye a couple of days ago and made me go digging for more detail. This statue representing...

While Henry Pelham ’s picture of the Boston Massacre is often analyzed as a political cartoon, I suspect he was aiming for something more a...

Here’s another submarine design from the eighteenth century, this one from the artist and inventor Robert Fulton. Fulton was born in Lan...

Speaking of William Dunlap ’s tragedy André , my friend John W. Kennedy has created an online text of that play by transcribing the 1798 e...

On 3 May 1797, Rufus King , then in London as the U.S. minister to Great Britain, wrote this in his diary : Mr. [ Benjamin] West calle...

Yesterday I showed an image of Benjamin West ’s painting of the American diplomats who went to Paris to negotiate the end of the War for ...

I’ve been writing about the on-again, off-again correspondence of Benjamin Franklin and David Hartley , British scientist and Member of ...

The New England Historical Association’s fall conference will take place this Saturday, 13 October, at Merrimack College in North Andover...

My posting earlier this week about John Singleton Copley ’s portrait of Margaret Gage kicked up some interesting comments and emails, so I...

On 12-13 November, the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester is hostin...