Boston 1775

At the end of the Revolutionary War, lots of things changed in Middletown, Connecticut . In 1784, Hugh White left that town to start surv...

Two noted historians of the American Revolution died in their nineties within a couple of days in early April. John Shy was his generat...

Last month the Aacimotaatiiyankwi blog of the Myaamia (Miami) community shared an interesting conversation about the records from an 1795 t...

This episode of the Timesuck podcast , this History Daily article , this Cracked article , this 13th Floor article , and this History Extra...

Yesterday I mentioned how John Beaird , the instigator of war with the Cherokee in the Southwest Territory in 1793, eventually moved to I...

Earlier this year, the Clements Library at the University of Michigan acquired more than 1,600 documents in the Papers of Henry Burbeck ...

Here’s an unusual discussion of the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 between two New Yorkers, published in (of all places) The Cincinnat...

The University of Pennsylvania library holds a notebook created in Southampton County, Virginia, between 1786 and 1791, according to the no...

It all started with a tweet from a friendly genealogist containing a link to this page from Google , listing all its digital newspaper archi...

American ships’ captains in the Atlantic appear to have caught on early to the steady northeast current along North America’s eastern coast ...

On Thursday I attended a seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society discussing a chapter from Richard Ryerson’s intellectual biography...