Boston 1775

Here’s a digital public history project to keep an eye on the coming years: Revolution Happened Here: Our Towns in the American Revolution ,...

When Lydia (Woods Dexter) Curtis died at the end of 1772, her three surviving sons were all in their late teens , of age to be apprentice...

The Boston Whigs weren’t surprised there was pushback against their Convention from Massachusetts towns where friends of the royal govern...

Last April Brian Barrett published an interesting article on the New York History Blog about a legal dispute between Massachusetts and Ne...

On 24 Sept 1794, William Butler of Northampton ran this item on the last page of his Hampshire Gazette newspaper: CURIOUS ANIMAL In ...

A few years ago, Ann M. Little shared this analysis of a passage, and an event, from A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. [Susanna] Johns...

Harvard University isn’t the only institution digitizing Revolutionary-era documents , of course. The New York Public Library ended up w...

In addition to the annual commemorations grouped around Patriots’ Day that I linked to here , a few more talks caught my eye because they’re...