Boston 1775

Looking at the Rev. Charles Inglis ’s political writing in 1774 led me to another pamphlet from that year: A Letter from a Veteran, to the ...

Here’s one more detail about the Locke family, whose retreat to Sherborn in December 1773 I’ve been discussing . The youngest child was J...

In 1726, Mary Toft claimed to have given birth to rabbits. This generated a lot of news coverage and debate in Britain. The episode contin...

Yesterday I quoted a short anecdote from Dr. James McHenry ’s diary of the Constitutional Convention . That diary was first published in 190...

On Wednesday, 29 March, Steven C. Bullock will speak at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on “Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Poli...

Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish highlighted the meaning of the “Appeal to Heaven” motto in the photo above from this weekend’s “Million Vet ...

On Thursday I attended a seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society discussing a chapter from Richard Ryerson’s intellectual biography...

The latest issue of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s online magazine History Now is all about studying and teaching the American Revolution. ...

Josiah Quincy , future mayor of Boston and president of Harvard College, was born in Boston in 1772. After his father, the fiery cross-eyed ...