Boston 1775

Back here I described the family of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons of Newburyport , including his fourth son, Thomas Parsons , who disappeared...

By 1774, John Hancock was a well known Massachusetts Whig. Newspapers in other colonies reported on him, though not always correctly. T...

A few days back I mentioned fireworks at New York ’s celebration of King George III ’s birthday in June 1774. I thought the report of that ...

I flagged this essay by Michelle Orihel at the Age of Revolutions blog for sharing just shy of two years ago, but here’s an extract at la...

On the evening of 14 Nov 1768, a crowd in New York burned effigies of two Massachusetts officials. Later that week, John Holt ’s  New-Yor...

As reported yesterday, on the evening of Monday, 14 Nov 1768, New Yorkers paraded with effigies of Gov. Francis Bernard and Sheriff Step...

The dispute over the Manufactory in Boston in late 1768 was so controversial that it managed to spark a secondary dispute in New York . ...

In February 1770, as I’ve described , the musician Josiah Flagg and the printers Edes and Gill brought to the Boston public new lyrics t...

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...

“About this image you want to include in your history textbook—we see potential problems with it.” “Really? The rights are clear. It com...