Boston 1775

On 9 July 1776, 250 years ago today , Heinrich Miller ’s Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote newspaper printed the first translation of the Declar...

John Dunlap printed official broadsides of the Declaration of Independence for the Continental Congress , but other printers were issuing...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence , Historic Trappe , the McNeil Center for Early American Studies , and Urs...

Commonplace published David E. Paterson’s article “Jefferson’s Mystery Woman Identified.” It begins: Historians have long wondered what p...

As described yesterday , on Christmas Eve in 1769 the brothers Patrick and Matthew Kennedy got drunk and stomped around the neighborhood o...

I looked up the Massachusetts newspaper coverage of Europe’s unusual atmosphere in 1783, quoted yesterday , after reading Katrin Kleemann’s ...

During the fight at Bemis Heights, the second act of the Battle of Saratoga , an American rifleman picked off Simon Fraser , brigadier gener...

Pennsylvania Heritage shares an interesting article by Patrick J. Donmoyer of Kutztown University on the “Hebamme Büchlein” or work record...

The Prize Papers Project is a largely German research endeavor exploring documents at the British National Archives. Between 1582 and 18...

When the historian Catharine Macaulay contacted Dr. James Graham , he was changing his field of medical practice . In his advertisements ...

In October the American Revolution Institute published an intriguing article about a British print in its collection, one of only two known...

Here are some links to music with colonial connections to enjoy at home over the upcoming holidays. During last year’s stay-at-home holid...

By the first anniversary of his marriage to Marie Anne Lavoisier , Count Rumford was calling her “a female Dragon.” (Though, as quoted yest...

Only three months after marrying Marie Anne Paulze de Lavoisier , Count Rumford told his daughter in America there were problems in the ma...

By the middle of 1804, as I recounted yesterday , Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (shown here), and Marie Anne Lavoisier had agreed to ma...

In late 1801, as I’ve been relating , Woburn native Benjamin Thompson , now a knight of the British Empire and Count Rumford of the Holy Ro...

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...

Earlier this summer Atlas Obscura published an interesting article by Kaja Seruga titled “The 18th-Century Cookbook That Helped Save the Sl...

Earlier this month, Ben at Extinct Monsters shared a report on Charles Willson Peale ’s mounted mastodon skeleton, now on exhibit at the Sm...

At this posting earlier in the month, I said that the first documented use of the English word “homesickness” was in 1756 and that the adje...