Boston 1775

Thomas Newell ’s diary makes clear that he opposed Parliament ’s tea tax in 1773, as most Bostonians did. On 2 December, for instance, he wr...

Last month I went to a one-day display of interesting Revolutionary documents from the Boston Public Library’s Archives & Special Collec...

There’s so much Boston Tea Party content being posted that I can’t keep up, especially as I’m putting the finishing touches on my two new p...

As I described here , on 21 Jan 1768 a legislative committee steered by James Otis, Jr. , and Samuel Adams proposed that the Massachusetts ...