Boston 1775

John Sawbridge (1732–1795) was of the radical Whigs who joined the Rev. John Horne in supporting John Wilkes during the 1760s, forming th...

As Parliament ’s 31 Oct 1776 debate over the American War went on, the next speaker was Sir Herbert Mackworth , recently made a baronet. T...

On 31 Oct 1776, Parliament opened a new legislative session. King George III addressed the assembled House of Commons and House of Lords. ...

In late 1776 the Scottish artisan James Aitken , after receiving some encouragement of American diplomat Silas Deane , left incendiary bomb...

On a very bad day in May 1794, Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier lost both her husband and her father to the guillotine. Within a cou...

The Fort Plain Museum has announced the speakers at its annual American Revolution Mohawk Valley Conference, scheduled for 11-14 June 2020. ...

Last month The Nib published Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings’s comic about Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben as a gay man. I found it i...

Prof. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy of the University of Virginia will give two public talks in Massachusetts next week, both on his book T...

Chemical & Engineering News recently reported on various ways chemists are investigating, systematizing, and recreating the smells o...

Back in 2009, Ray Raphael contributed a “guest blogger” posting here about his book Founders , which traces the history of the Revolution...

On Saturday, 4 November, Faneuil Hall will host a reenactment of the Boston town meeting I described yesterday , setting up a non-import...

On 25 August the National Park Service is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the law that founded the agency. Parks are charging no...

This week HistoryTube.org announced [trademark symbol and all]: “A portrait of Benjamin Thompson , one of the most prominent scientists o...

Today the Massachusetts Historical Society opens a new exhibit on the first public theater in Boston, a matter of great controversy back i...