Boston 1775

Now this is a lede: Revolutionary War hero Margaret “Captain Molly” Corbin was long thought to be buried beneath her granite monument a...

Since I was on a Battle of Monmouth kick, I’ll jump to one of the most enduring American legends to come out of that fight: Molly Pitcher. ...

Yesterday John U. Rees called my attention to this article by Matthew Skic , currently a student in the Winterthur museum’s Program in Ea...

Michel Aubrecht at Blog, or Die reminded me of Washington Crisps, a breakfast cereal sold a century ago in the midst of the Colonial Revival...

As I said yesterday , in mid-1777 the British military proposed exchanging suspected spy Dr. Benjamin Church for a “Doctor McHenry now a pr...