Boston 1775

Earlier this week the president of Yale , Marie McInnis, offered inspiration to the graduating class from a work by much earlier graduate. ...

The “Poetry and the Constitution” event I described yesterday made me think there must have been poetry about the Constitution , part of t...

The 1784 Connecticut Courant report about Isaac Johnson having the bodies of his children dug up, hoping to save other members of his fa...

It’s a Boston 1775 tradition to share a “carrier verse” at the turn of the year. Traditionally those were poems written and printed by ne...

Lt. Col. James Abercrombie (1732-1775) led the battalion of British grenadiers, detached from their regiments , at the Battle of Bunker H...

The 2018 Fort Ticonderoga Seminar on the American Revolution is coming up on 21-23 September 2018. This is the fifteenth annual seminar i...

It’s a Boston 1775 tradition at the turn of each year to share at least one carrier verse or address. Back in eighteenth-century Americ...

As described yesterday, Lt. Col. Moses Parker of Chelmsford died as a prisoner of war on 4 July 1775 from a leg wound he suffered in the ...

Back in January, I saw this painting on Twitter, identified as a portrait of Gen. George Washington by John Singleton Copley . I repli...

In 1818 the Revolutionary War veteran and painter John Trumbull came to Boston to exhibit his depiction of the Continental Congress consid...

I’m pleased to see that the Course of Human Events blog has started to post more frequently about the Declaration of Independence . This ...

Yesterday I mentioned the exhibit in New York about the French portraitist Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. I wondered if any of the American di...

On 20 Aug 1774 , the young lawyer John Trumbull sent the following to his legal mentor John Adams , then on his way to the First Continen...

Yesterday I described the accomplishments of young John Trumbull , son of a Westbury, Connecticut , minister. His mother, daughter of anot...

Last week I shared a portrait of John Trumbull (1750-1831), the author of M’Fingal and Connecticut jurist. He was a child prodigy, accor...

It’s been noted that the phrase “a painting of Winston Churchill” can refer to a painting of the British Prime Minister, a painting by the ...

On Thursday, I’m going to Gen. George Washington ’s headquarters in Cambridge to speak about how he managed his generals and his staff . ...

I’ve been discussing the early life of Thomas Machin , commissioned a lieutenant in the Continental Army artillery on 18 Jan 1776. But wh...

Today the Massachusetts Historical Society opens a new exhibit on the first public theater in Boston, a matter of great controversy back i...

In early August 1775, or one month after he arrived in Cambridge to take command of the Continental Army , Gen. George Washington received...