Boston 1775

Another reason to doubt that Samuel Adams actually wrote and delivered the oration credited to him by a London pamphlet of 1776 is that he ...

In late 1776 a pamphlet appeared in London with the title: An Oration Delivered at the State-House, in Philadelphia, to a very numerous...

Yesterday I described the arrival of a set of books in Franklin , Massachusetts, the result of a financial gift from Benjamin Franklin (...

The Boston Globe just reported on “an old-fashioned turf war” between the city of Franklin’s public library and the private non-profit gro...