Boston 1775

On Friday, 25 September, America’s History, L.L.C., is offering a unique tour titled “Behind Enemy Lines: General Benjamin Lincoln’s Pawlet...

Isaiah Thomas and Henry-Walter Tinges launched the Essex Journal newspaper in Newburyport in 1773. Among its advertisers was town scho...

Years back, I had reason to look into whether colonial Boston had sedan chairs. That question was complicated by how colonists used the te...

Yesterday I alluded to a Professor Buzzkill podcast as my spur to look for the statement “We must hang together or separately” in a letter...

While looking at the diary of Thomas Newell this spring, I was struck by this dramatic entry for 29 May 1773, 252 years ago today: King’s s...

At the Scilicet blog, James Fox wrote about a gift from Dr. Samuel Johnson : In 1773, during their now famous tour of the Western Isles of...

Last month Artnet and the Guardian reported on historian Fara Dabhoiwala’s findings about a painting I discussed in 2009 . The painting ...

The Pennsylvania Packet article describing the flag on Prospect Hill in January 1776 also reported that the British inside besieged Boston...

Last week I elaborated on a news story from Britain about the rediscovery of a detail in an eighteenth-century painting that everyone knew ...

In 1835, as quoted yesterday , Lemuel Shattuck wrote that Dr. Samuel Prescott was captured on a privateer and died as a prisoner of war ...

Like the Georgian Papers Programme , Digit.En.S is a study of eighteenth-century Britain funded by the E.U. and based at a continental univ...

I’ve been discussing the historical background behind Lillian de la Torre’s mystery short story, “The Great Seal of England .” In 1943 De l...

In addition to the theft of the Great Seal of Britain, discussed yesterday , the writer Lillian de la Torre took inspiration from two other...

Lillian de la Torre Bueno (1902–1993) grew up in Manhattan reading mystery stories. After teaching in the New York schools for a few years...

In the interest of equal time, I’m going to quote from former governor Thomas Hutchinson ’s public response to the Declaration of Independe...

For a long time I’ve been fond of the online version of Samuel Johnson ’s Dictionary. I even recommended it in a Journal of the American Rev...

In Parliament, 250 years ago this season, there was a big step forward in press freedom to report about how English-speaking governments wo...

In my recent discussion of Peter Faneuil and the meeting hall still named after him, I referred to him as disabled . That produced some...

The Readex newspaper database I use offers this page from the 28 June 1775 issue of the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser . In f...

On Monday, 26 Mar 1770, 250 years ago today , the inhabitants of Boston once again gathered in Faneuil Hall for a town meeting . Technica...