Boston 1775

Yesterday we left Customs Collector Joseph Harrison just after he confiscated the sloop Liberty from John Hancock . He thought he had ...

The Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island , is hosting its annual seminar on Saturday, 10 June. This year’s gathering is...

In August, one of the stops on my walking tour of Cambridge as a seat of civil war was Christ Church , the city’s oldest surviving house o...