Boston 1775

Last week I shared sources detailing how the Declaration of Independence was drafted. This post jumps back a few days to a last-ditch ef...

Of all the poems, light verse, and songs I’ve quoted from the debate over a new U.S. Constitution this week, only one has come from Anti-Fe...

On 18 Oct 1777, Gen. George Washington issued joyous general orders to the Continental Army outside Philadelphia: The General has his happ...

The New York doctors’ riot of 1788 arose from a popular emotional response to medical students’ grave-robbing and disrespectful treatmen...

A few days back I mentioned William Alexander Duer ’s New-York as it Was, During the Latter Part of the Last Century , published in 1849....

When we left off William Heth ’s account of the New York doctors’ riot of April 1788, the anti-dissection crowd had started to attack the c...

In late July 1775, twenty-nine-year-old lawyer Benjamin Hichborn set off from Philadelphia for his home province of Massachusetts, proudl...

On Thursday, I’m going to Gen. George Washington ’s headquarters in Cambridge to speak about how he managed his generals and his staff . ...

Early this year I spotted a magazine ad for George Clinton: Master Builder of the Empire State , by John K. Lee. It’s a biography of the m...