Boston 1775

The Museum of African American History in Boston has opened a new exhibit called “Black Voices of the Revolution: Liberty, Emancipation, an...

On Saturday, 5 July, the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site will host the Sestercentennial commemoration of...

On Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025, the city of Somerville will observe its annual Grand Union Flag Raising, 249 years after Gen. George Washington ...

The Journal of American Constitutional History just published (open access, and thus available to all) David Waldstreicher’s article “Rac...

I’ve been analyzing the likely sources for the 15 Jan 1776 article in John Dunlap ’s Pennsylvania Packet about the flag on Prospect Hill a...

At the end of November 1773, the ship Dartmouth was moored in Boston’s inner harbor, watched by a militia -style patrol of volunteers to e...

Ade Solanke is a British playwright of Nigerian descent. She earned an M.F.A. in screenwriting at U.S.C. on top of British degrees, and she...

Last month the National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., announced the acquisiti...

This year seeing the Sestercentennial of the publication of Phillis Wheatley ’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral , we continu...

The Los Angeles Review of Books just ran Hollis Robbins’s assessment of what the headline calls “Two New Books About Phillis Wheatley .” ...

Speaking of Phillis Wheatley, Studies in Romanticism has issued a call for articles for a special issue of the journal with the theme “Whe...

As related in yesterday’s posting , a storm in September 1767 pushed a schooner packed with whale oil onto Cape Cod . But that ship was...

Earlier this month the Newport Historical Society shared Amelia Yeager’s essay on a question about the career of Phillis Wheatley : Why did...

On 7 July 1773, nearly two hundred fifty years ago, Benjamin Franklin wrote to his relative Jonathan Williams, Sr. , in Boston: Upon your ...

Yesterday my article “ Phillis Wheatley ’s ‘Mrs. W—’: Identifying the Woman Who Inspired ‘Ode to Neptune’” appeared on Commonplace , the web...

On Saturday, 20 May, the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge will host an event called “Finding...

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is a new study of the Africa-born, Boston-educated poet that focuses on her as an anti-slavery voice in ...

Prof. Wendy Raphael Roberts of the University of Albany has announced the discovery of a previously unknown poem by Phillis Wheatley , “On t...

In 2018, Mount Vernon hosted a symposium on the theme “‘A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool’: The Women of George Washington’s W...

On the afternoon of Wednesday, 8 December, the National Constitution Center will host an online panel discussion about “Poetry and the Cons...