Boston 1775

Yesterday I left Edward Rand dead on Dorchester Point. The man who had just killed him in a duel, Charles Miller, Jr. , could have been a...

On 14–15 July, the Newport Historical Society will host this year’s edition of “The French in Newport,” a historical reenactment in the he...

I’ve been writing about the death of Lt. Albert Rémy de Meaux , artillerist in the French army, after he was struck by lightning in Phila...

Here’s a story I’ve been intermittently digging into since 2013, when a chance tweet about it from the author William Hogeland intrigued me...

The Swedish count Axel von Fersen (1755-1810) came to Rhode Island in 1780 to serve as an aide-de-camp to Gen. Rochambeau , commander of t...

Here’s the lineup of upcoming talks at the David Library of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania. That’s a striking venue with a loyal...

An exhibit on “The American Revolution: A World War” just opened at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History . There is also...

Next Saturday, 27 August, the Newport Historical Society is sponsoring another of its fine large-scale reenactments in the center of town:...

Yesterday the A.M.C. television channel announced that it had ordered ten more episodes of Turn: Washington’s Spies to make up a fourth a...

The Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury is welcoming the French ship Hermione on 11 July with a lecture by Robert A. Selig titled “ En Ava...

On Thursday and Friday, 4 and 5 December, Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge will host its a...

Two of the nice people I met at the “American Revolution Reborn” conference in Philadelphia earlier this month were Joe DiBello of the Wa...

When George Washington was born, the British Empire was still using the Julian Calendar and refusing to abide by the more accurate, but p...

This was a “ George Washington week” at Boston 1775 , and today is the anniversary (in a way) of his actual birthday. So it seems appropria...