Boston 1775

Yesterday’s New York Times reported on the New-York Historical Society ’s project to “to catalog its 5,700 American almanacs, one of the...

On Thursday, 13 June, Historic New England will host a talk by Associate Curator Laura Johnson on “Skirts, Stays, and Skeleton Suits: Cloth...

One of my favorite schoolboys from Revolutionary Boston is Joshua Green (1764-1847) because he saved a lot of stuff from his youth that oth...

Just because a commander issues orders, as I’ve quoted Gen. George Washington doing over the past two days , that doesn’t mean everyone in...

Yesterday folks at the Seth Kaller firm in New York sent me a link to their catalog of the early American documents related to Boston now f...

Yesterday I quoted Harrison Gray Otis on his first day at the South Latin School in Boston. Today I quote his memory of his last day under...

Master John Lovell (shown here, in an image from the 1886 Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School ) didn’t let just any child into Bost...

Having discussed what Boston’s Latin School boys were studying , I now turn to the bigger question: what the larger crowd of Writing School ...

A Boston 1775 reader asked to know more about the difference between the two types of public schools in colonial Boston that I mentioned on...