Boston 1775

Toward the end of their 8 May 1770 town meeting , Bostonians turned to approving salaries for the town’s schoolteachers. There were five...

I’ve shared reminiscences from Benjamin Russell and Harrison Gray Otis of how their Boston public schools closed in April 1775 with the...

On 30 June 1789, in the midst of the debate over Boston’s public- school system that I discussed yesterday , the Herald of Freedom newspap...

“Back to School” Week(s) at Boston 1775 comes to a close with this profile of a young schoolteacher caught up in the start of the Revolutio...

I’ve decided it’s “Back to School Week” at Boston 1775 . Every posting (well, ’most every posting) for the next few days will be about schoo...

In the 1700s, a gentleman’s white wig not only told other gentlemen that he was a gentleman, it could also signify what kind of gentleman he...

John Tileston (1735-1826) taught at Boston’s public writing school in the North End for sixty-five years, starting as an “usher” or assistan...