Boston 1775

Yesterday I quoted the start of John Adams ’s description of his first visit to Princeton in August 1774, when he was on his way to the F...

On 5 May 1768, the Pennsylvania Gazette ran an article headlined, “A Description of a new ORRERY, planned, and now nearly finished, by Mr...

Way back in 2008, I wrote a series of postings about Richard Stockton , who voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence as a Con...

Benjamin Towne of the Pennsylvania Evening Post was one of Philadelphia’s most enthusiastic Whig printers from 1775 to late 1777, when th...

So what do documents from 1776 and 1777 tell us about Richard Stockton , signer of the Declaration of Independence , and what he experienced...

A week ago I wrote about Mitt Romney’s attempt to invoke the First Continental Congress in his speech on religion in politics. Now it’s Mik...