Boston 1775

In April 1775, John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying together at the parsonage in Lexington , where Hancock had spent some of his ch...

On Monday, 31 March, I’m returning to Acton to speak in the town’s series of Sestercentennial lectures . My topic this time is “Spies and...

The ninety men assembled in Salem on Wednesday, 5 Oct 1774, as described yesterday , waited for Gen. Thomas Gage or another royal official...

The Fort Plain Museum’s Revolutionary War Conference 250 in the Mohawk Valley will take place this year on 14–16 June in Johnstown, New York...

One of the arguments for the importance of the Gaspee incident in the American Revolution is that George Washington attended fireworks in...

When I first read about the idea that Americans rebelled because they worried about the British government moving to end chattel slavery ,...

In 1991, Sylvia Frey published Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age , mostly about the last years of the Revolution...

Tomorrow is Cambridge Discovery Day , when the city’s historical commission promotes a day of free walking tours in various neighborhoods (f...

John Graves Simcoe , the British army officer whose evil twin is a character in the Turn television series, arrived in Boston as a lieute...

The National Book Awards finalists in the Nonfiction category include two books anchored in the eighteenth century. The Book of Ages: Th...

America’s History, L.L.C. , is sponsoring its second annual Conference on the American Revolution in Williamsburg, Virginia, on 22-24 March...

For the last three days I’ve been tracing the debate within the Revolutionary leadership over whether to enlist black troops in the Contine...