Boston 1775

When Boston 1775 last looked in on America250 , the commemorative campaign of the Congressionally-established Semiquincentennial commission...

On Monday, 1 June, the Massachusetts Historical Society will host a panel discussion titled “Declaring Independence: Declaration to Constitu...

I’ve been following the story of the President’s House site within Independence National Historical Park. That structure marks the reside...

This week Columbia University announced the Pulitzer Prizes for 2026 . In journalism, the big trend was big exposés of big abuses by the cur...

In addition to the Freedom Trucks discussed yesterday , the federal government and its corporate donors are sending the Freedom Plane around...

Among the Trump administration’s Sestercentennial initiatives are modern gladiatorial games outside the White House on the President’s birt...

Jack Rakove is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies emeritus at Stanford University, with parallel appointme...

Back in September, the U.S. Secretary of Education, former wrestling entertainment magnate Linda McMahon, announced that “Patriotic Educatio...

On 15 January, Prof. Johann Neem shared an essay titled “The Problem of Violence in Authoritarian America.” Here’s a sample: No American sh...

Earlier this month, Prof. Noah Shusterman, author of Armed Citizens: From Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment , shared an essay through ...

Johann Neem, author of Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts , Democracy’s Schools: The ...

Mother Jones just shared David Corn and Tim Murphy’s article “Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III...

On Patriots’ Day the towns of Danvers and Peabody come together again to honor the men who marched from that area on 19 Apr 1775 to confro...

My friend and fellow author Ray Raphael has launched a YouTube channel called “Our Constitution—If We Can Keep It.” There are six episode...

In 1798 the U.S. Congress, caught up in the possibility of war against France (then under the Directory government ), passed a series of co...

In September 1975, as America was celebrating its Bicentennial, ABC launched a new season of Schoolhouse Rock interstitials titled “America...

This week William R. Bay, president of the American Bar Association, issued a statement that says in part: Most Americans recognize that ne...

As I wrote yesterday , on 5 May 1789 the new U.S. House faced the text of its first major bill: a schedule of tariffs on various imported g...

The U.S. Constitution , in Article I, Section 7, states: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but ...

On Thursday, 16 January, the Concord Museum will host Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University...