Boston 1775

Yesterday I quoted two letters that relatives of Charles Adams wrote at the end of May 1789, discussing his predilection to get into tro...

As I wrote back here , in December 1788 Harvard professor Eliphalet Pearson began to keep a “Journal of disorders &c.” It’s possib...

In discussing Charles Adams ’s final semester at Harvard, I must now introduce the setting of the Blue Anchor Tavern in Cambridge . Loca...

In late December 1787, the Harvard College faculty did some house-cleaning. It was the end of an academic term, the end of the calendar y...