Boston 1775

On 15 Jan 1776, John Dunlap ’s Pennsylvania Packet newspaper in Philadelphia published a round-up of war news for its readers. Here are s...

On 27 Nov 1777, the Independent Chronicle newspaper of Boston reported on a ship sailing under a flag of truce: Last Sunday returned here ...

Though the first report about the London government’s plan for a special commission to investigate the attack on H.M.S. Gaspee was optimist...

Last month Heather Wilson wrote on the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Beehive blog about a copybook written out by Elizabeth Heath (17...

After a Gloucester crowd attacked Samuel Fellows and Jesse Saville in September 1768, both men went to work for His Majesty’s Customs Ser...

In 1884 the U.S. Census Office published a report called “The Newspaper and Periodical Press” by S. N. D. North , who would become a leadi...

Public protests against the Stamp Act spread outside of Boston in August 1765 so quickly that I’ve fallen behind the sestercentennial ann...