Boston 1775

Last week History.com published Elizabeth Yuko’s article “Town Criers Were the Original Social Media.” The scope of this survey ranges ...

Last month the Journal of the American Revolution published Ray Raphael’s article “A Kingly Government?: Benjamin Franklin ’s Great Fear.” ...

The American Philosophical Society has just shared what might be the best blog posting of the season : Renée Wolcott’s “Spurious Sexploits: ...

Here’s another source on the Revolution recently digitized: eight handwritten volumes of Dr. Benjamin Rush ’s “Travels Through Life: or Acc...

Yesterday I was struck by Pema Levy’s article at Mother Jones about a false document being cited to the U.S. Supreme Court . Levy based h...

For Presidents Day, we look in on George Washington ’s meetings with his cabinet on 1-2 Aug 1793. The issue on the table was what to do ...

When I saw the movie musical 1776 during the Bicentennial, it left me with a strong impression of James Wilson . He was the Pennsylvania ...

American historians’ Twitter feeds lit up yesterday with links and responses to an essay from James Wagner , the president of Emory Universi...

The July 2011 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography newly transcribes and reprints James Wilson ’s notes from the Con...

On 18 June 1775, George Washington wrote in his diary: Dined at Mullens upon Schoolkill. Spent the Evening at my lodgings. The next day he...

Last Tuesday the Philadelphia Inquirer reported about the rediscovery of a document in the holdings of the Historical Society of Pennsylva...

Jacqueline Jules and Jef Czekaj ’s picture book Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation acknowledges Anti-Federalist sentiment i...

Recently the New York Times reported on the upcoming final volume of the Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 17...

Tomorrow the Lyric Stage Company of Boston opens its season with the musical 1776 , the all-singing, rather-little-dancing portrayal of the...