Boston 1775

As long as we’re out in Blandford with Henry Knox , we might as well enjoy the town’s eighteenth-century history. Most of the first Bri...

As I mentioned back here, I scripted one of the stories in the new anthology Colonial Comics: New England, 1620-1750 . I wrote that script w...

Yesterday I quoted from the page of the Hopkinton meetinghouse records shown above, photographed this week for the New York Times : Februa...

Yesterday’s New York Times had a front-page article about an ongoing search for old New England church records. Many churches still have...

On Tuesday, 13 November, the Bostonian Society is hosting a special event focused on this dress, embroidered by Elizabeth Bull before her...

Common-place offers a terrific interview with Henry Wiencek, author of The Hairstons and An Imperfect God , about his research on how Geo...