Boston 1775

On 29 July 1775, the Middlesex Journal , a newspaper published in London, reported this tidbit about the Battle of Bunker Hill : The day...

Sometimes it’s good to get away from the crowded Boston Common of 1768, so here are a couple of interesting historical events taking place ...

Yesterday I noted a mistake I made in Reporting the Revolutionary War , saying that John Derby took the 28 Apr 1775 issue of the Salem G...

Last night’s talk at the Lexington Historical Society was fun, and I learned new stuff while preparing it. For instance, the Museum of Fi...

On Friday, 7 February, I’ll speak to the Lexington Historical Society about how the start of the Revolutionary War was reported. The so...

From Jon Kukla and the H-OIEAHC email list came word of the searchable database of the London Gazette —the official British government ne...