Boston 1775

In his 1906 History of Washington County, Maryland , Thomas J. C. Williams wrote a lot about Benjamin Galloway , who, he said, died in Augus...

When John Francis Mercer arrived late at the Constitutional Convention on 6 Aug 1787, he was only twenty-eight years old—the second younge...

A couple of years ago, I attended a seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society on a paper by Prof. Mary Sarah Bilder of Boston College...

The Massachusetts Historical Society recently bought a 1788 letter from James Warren to Elbridge Gerry (shown here) that hasn’t appeare...