Boston 1775

Last month I wrote about David Hartley (1732-1813), the Member of Parliament who went from being a far-out-of-power rookie lawmaker in 1...

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 ...

As I described yesterday , in late 1775 David Hartley , an opposition Member of Parliament , sent two letters to Benjamin Franklin propos...

After my talk at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site earlier this month , there was a long and lively questi...

On Monday, 19 Dec 1774, the British Parliament debated “raising the Supply granted to his Majesty”—i.e., enacting taxes, in this case a lan...