Boston 1775

Three of the people shot in the Boston Massacre died almost immediately: Crispus Attucks , James Caldwell , and Samuel Gray . The soldier...

On Saturday, 9 March, I’ll speak to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Paul Revere Chapter, about “Paul Revere’s Pictures of the Bost...

I mentioned this in a comment a few days back, but thought it deserved more space. The Boston Public Library’s Rare Books and Manuscript...

This blog entry is brought to you in part by Colonial Comics: New England, 1620-1750 , a new anthology of historical comics edited by Jason...

As we approach the anniversary of the Boston Massacre on 5 March, Charles Bahne, author of The Complete Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail , ...

Samuel Maverick was the youngest person to die in the Boston Massacre : only seventeen years old. Printers Edes and Gill of the Boston Gaz...

At last week’s vice-presidential debate, one point of disagreement was over the term “maverick.” That was one of the many terms Sarah Palin ...

To show off and sell its useful but expensive Archive of Americana digital databases, the Readex company offers a few online samples, inclu...

In colonial Boston, some newspapers published each Monday, and some each Thursday. Because the Boston Massacre occurred on a Monday evening,...

A couple of articles touching on Revolutionary history have appeared this month in regional sections of the Boston Globe . On 9 November, th...

On the first anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere displayed a picture of Christopher “Seider’s pale ghost” in a window of his ne...