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Saturday, March 05, 2022
Knowing Your Enemy by Name
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The two pieces of testimony I quoted over the last two days have something in common besides how they both described violence between loca...
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Thursday, March 03, 2022
Back to the Ropewalks
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In 2020 I presented five men’s perspectives on the fight between soldiers and ropemakers at John Gray ’s ropewalk on 2 Mar 1770. The ne...
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
Was Crispus Attucks Really the First Man Shot at the Massacre?
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Another question about the Boston Massacre that I saw come up this Sestercentennial season is whether Crispus Attucks was really the fi...
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Friday, March 01, 2013
Richard Palmes’s Last Word
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As Neil L. York quotes in The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents , Richard Palmes published his own version of his testimony about t...
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