Boston 1775

As I quoted yesterday , Ann Swift was convinced that her husband, Samuel Swift , was essentially “murdered” by royal authorities when they ...

In 1817, Gen. Joseph G. Swift (1783–1865), the U.S. Army’s chief of engineers, accompanied the new President, James Monroe , on a tour of f...

This episode of the Timesuck podcast , this History Daily article , this Cracked article , this 13th Floor article , and this History Extra...

Plodding Through the Presidents is Howard Dorre’s ongoing blog about reading Presidential biographies, starting with Flexner’s Washington...

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr is a retelling of the political rivalry that led to the most famous fatal duel in U....

Yesterday’s posting left Thomas Paine and Robert Smyth , former baronet, in Revolutionary Paris at the end of 1792. Both Englishmen by b...

I find myself with an extra Colonial Williamsburg wall calendar for 2013. It’s about 8 inches by 11, with a color photograph for each mon...

The Houghton Library at Harvard has devoted a blog posting to a notable item among its rare books: George Washington ’s copy of A View of ...

The St. Paul’s Preparatory School (Colet Court) in London won this year’s Townsend-Warner competition for historical knowledge. As this web...

Three items in the latest issue of Early American Studies caught my eye last month because of their Revolutionary-era content: The Wheatle...