Boston 1775

In 1706, the elected political leaders of Massachusetts were at odds with the appointed royal governor, Joseph Dudley . There were many bo...

On Thursday, 5 November, the Marblehead Museum will present an online talk by Judy Anderson on “The History of Fort Sewall.” Marblehead bu...

The earliest examples of a poetic address from colonial American newspaper carriers to their customers on New Year’s Day are all from the fa...

As I prepared yesterday’s posting about the duel between Henry Phillips and Benjamin Woodbridge , I noticed there’s a considerable liter...

On 1 Apr 1708, Samuel Sewall (1652-1730), merchant, judge, and eventually chief justice of Massachusetts, wrote to Boston schoolmasters Eze...

Today the Old South Meetinghouse launches a series of lunchtime talks on the theme of “Politics and the Pulpit.” Each lecture runs 12:15...

Last week Matt Rocheleau reported for Boston.com on the state government’s plan to restore a colonial milestone along Harvard Avenue in A...

Now that Hallowe’en is past, Salem can turn to its real history of witchcraft—or, rather, to the real history of the witchcraft hysteria th...

Correcting a gravestone in 1773, via Vast Public Indifference: bit.ly/d1rl3d # Starred PUBLISHERS WEEKLY review for Jack Rakove's REVO...

One of the mysteries of great importance that Boston 1775 has poked through is the term “Mount Whoredom,” used by British officers in 1775-...

When the Revolutionary War began in 1775, a little more than eighty years had passed since Massachusetts was convulsed by the witchcraft hys...

Yesterday’s Boston Globe offered H. W. Brands ’s review of Joseph Ellis ’s latest book on the founding era, American Creation . Brands says...

This week I had the good fortune to receive a gift of The Diary of Samuel Sewall (1652-1730), merchant, judge, and eventually chief justice...