Boston 1775

Back in 2017 , I shared a map of the Battle of Bunker Hill that Gen. Henry Clinton had drawn himself on the back of some sheet music ( p...

The H-Net journal Remembering the American Revolution at 250 recently shared a new paper by Jonathan Bayer of the University of Toronto. ...

Matthew Reardon will speak at the Ledyard, Connecticut , Public Library on 10 September about his new book, The Traitor’s Homecoming: Bene...

As discussed yesterday , Lt. Col. Robert Donkin distributed Historical Collections and Remarks to most of his subscribers in the spring of...

In 1699 the first Duke of Devonshire commissioned a formal garden for his seat at Chatsworth, including a large expanse called the “great p...

On 29 Mar 1781, a blacksmith named Benjamin Montanye (1745–1825) was detained near Haverstraw, New York , by a Loyalist squad under Lt. Ja...

At Borealia , the blog about early Canadian history, Benjamin Anderson, a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh, shared some of h...

So far as I can tell, no new evidence about Margaret Gage and her husband Gen. Thomas Gage ’s secret plans came to light in the twentieth c...

I went looking for the first author to argue that Margaret Gage betrayed her husband, Gen. Thomas Gage, by revealing his plan for the march ...

When I first read about the idea that Americans rebelled because they worried about the British government moving to end chattel slavery ,...

In 1991, Sylvia Frey published Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age , mostly about the last years of the Revolution...

I claim only a basic knowledge of the southern campaigns of the Revolutionary War, but I’ve long had the impression that these are the stan...

The Clements Library at the University of Michigan just announced that it has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for th...

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

Here’s an intriguing document from the maps collection at the Library of Congress. It’s Gen. Henry Clinton ’s hand-drawn map of the Ba...

On 31 May 1776, Samuel Johnston wrote a letter to his sister Hannah Iredell from Halifax, North Carolina, describing what people were tal...

Over at the Journal of the American Revolution, there have been several articles of interest this year already. And not just because they ...

While speaking in Morristown last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Jason R. Wickersty, a National Park Service ranger. He just wrote...

Yesterday we left Eunice Hazard and her children in Newport, Rhode Island , in 1779 after her husband Thomas evacuated the town with the ...

As I described yesterday, the identity of the “Captain Smythe, of the Royal Army” whom Frank Moore quoted several times in the Diary of the ...