Boston 1775

Theaters on either side of Massachusetts are offering Revolutionary musicals in this Independence Day season. Through Sunday, 19 July, at ...

Bostonians had lots of public debates over what to do about the East India Company ’s tea , both before and after persons unidentified destr...

Thomas Newell ’s diary makes clear that he opposed Parliament ’s tea tax in 1773, as most Bostonians did. On 2 December, for instance, he wr...

The Journal of the American Revolution regularly asks its contributors to share a short answer to an intriguing question—a favorite event or...

Old North Illuminated is living up to its name by hosting an online presentation by Jake Sconyers on the topic “They Burnt Tolerable Well:...

Ebenezer Richardson reportedly went into hiding in Philadephia in mid-October 1773, just as the tea crisis heated up. For the next sever...

This week John Alan Segalla’s musical Rebel Town is being performed at the Duffin Theater in Lenox. The ticket page says : Rebel Town pl...

Just because the British Empire was sliding toward internal warfare in 1774, that was no reason to stop laughing about the news. Here are ...

Here’s another in the seemingly endless tales of tea surviving from the Boston Tea Party . The earliest sign of this tea I’ve found is an...

Another source on the circumstances of the mobbing of John Malcolm was Gov. Thomas Hutchinson , reporting to the Earl of Dartmouth , Secret...

On 16 Aug 1826, the Columbian Centinel newspaper of Boston published this item on the upper left corner of its front page: Tea Destroyers. ...

On 23 Feb 1830, the Rhode-Island American reported this death: In Waldoborough, (Me) Mr William Hendley, formerly of Roxbury , Mass. aged 8...

It’s a Boston 1775 tradition to start the new year with poetry. So far most of these verses have come from the handbills that newspaper car...

One facet of the Boston Tea Party that I’m thinking about this season is how many observers expected quick retaliation of some sort from th...

On 31 Dec 1773, as recounted yesterday , Charlestown burned its tea at high noon. Everyone could see that happen, but of course bonfires a...

As I noted back here , when the Boston Gazette reported on the people of Lexington burning their tea on 13 Dec 1773, the newspaper said C...

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The Boston Tea Party was splashing up in other American cities two hundred fifty years ago today , on 25 Dec 1773. The Boston committee o...

Johanna Yaun, historian of Orange County, New York, visited Boston to see last weekend’s Tea Party commemoration. She shared her thoughts o...

Last Saturday we enjoyed ideal weather for the sestercentennial of the Boston Tea Party : cool enough to remind us it was December, but not...