Boston 1775

When the Locke family returned to Sherborn , after the Rev. Dr. Samuel Locke resigned as president of Harvard College (because he’d father...

Three years ago I wrote about the sestercentennial of the Rev. Samuel Locke ’s inauguration as president of Harvard College . Normally I...

On 1 Dec 1773, two and a half centuries ago today , the Rev. Dr. Samuel Locke resigned as president of Harvard College . I wrote about ho...

Last month the Cambridge Historical Society issued a report on the history of slavery at its headquarters, called the Hooper-Lee-Nichols H...

When Bela Lincoln was growing up in Hingham in the 1740s, his father—a wealthy farmer, town official , and militia colonel—insisted on se...

To be sure, there were other things going on in Massachusetts in March 1770 besides responses to the Boston Massacre . On 21 March, Harvar...

Earlier this month I posted a couple of times about the milestones in and around Boston, and proposed that someone (else) compile a comp...

This is the old Sawin house in Natick , photographed in 1936, from the American Antiquarian Society’s photographs of historical structures ...