Boston 1775

I heartily recommend reading this webpage from Carpe Librum books , written to sell a rare book of poems printed in London in 1773. Settin...

William Fitzmaurice was born in Dublin in 1737 and grew up in rural southern Ireland. His parents were from aristocratic families, though ne...

The Clements Library at the University of Michigan just announced that it has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for th...

Yesterday I quoted Capt. Moses Harvey ’s newspaper advertisement from November 1775, minutely describing five soldiers who had deserted f...

Julian Peters is a comics creator from Montréal, Canada . Among his current projects is a graphic novel about the 1759 siege of Québec , i...

After Liz Covart tweeted about my post tracing a variation of “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes” to Israel Putnam , I had ...

At 6:00 P.M. on Friday, 18 October, Stephen Brumwell, author of George Washington: Gentleman Warrior , may speak at the Cambridge estate ...

One of my doorways into eighteenth-century history was Christopher Seider , the young boy fatally shot in a riot in Boston on 22 Feb 1770. ...