Boston 1775

On 30–31 Aug 1774 delegates from “every town and district in the county of Middlesex” met at Concord to discuss the political situation in ...

One direct target of the “Powder Alarm” protest in Cambridge on 2 Sept 1774 was Joseph Lee , a judge and appointee to the mandamus Council...

In The Road to Concord I quoted a lot from accounts of the “Powder Alarm” that Dr. Joseph Warren and Dr. Thomas Young sent to Samuel Ada...

On the evening of Thursday, 11 March, I’ll offer an online presentation for the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic...

Last month the Cambridge Historical Society issued a report on the history of slavery at its headquarters, called the Hooper-Lee-Nichols H...

Two hundred fifty years ago on this date, the Massachusetts General Court took its first step to counter the new Stamp Act . The proces...

Ebenezer Storrs was a lieutenant colonel commissioned by Connecticut in the spring of 1775. These are entries from his diary describing wha...

This afternoon at 3:30 I’m leading my new “Ladies of Tory Row” walking tour of Brattle Street in Cambridge , starting at the Tory Row histo...

My talk last night at Gen. Washington ’s 1775-76 headquarters kept coming back to this map of that part of Cambridge in 1776. Some folks wa...