Boston 1775

At Common-place, Julie R. Voss discussed the self-fashioned career of James Leander Cathcart (1767–1843). Cathcart was born in Ireland a...

The “Poetry and the Constitution” event I described yesterday made me think there must have been poetry about the Constitution , part of t...

The 1784 Connecticut Courant report about Isaac Johnson having the bodies of his children dug up, hoping to save other members of his fa...

It’s a Boston 1775 tradition at the turn of each year to share at least one carrier verse or address. Back in eighteenth-century Americ...

Yesterday I quoted the introductory lines of the verse for 1 Jan 1799 printed for the subscribers to the American Telegraphe in Newfield ...

Michael Quinion of World Wide Words recently wrote : In 1807, the American diplomat , politician and poet Joel Barlow [1754-1812] publis...