Boston 1775

One important element of the “Powder Alarm” of 1774 was that although the British army operation ended peacefully on the morning of 1 Sept...

Running the portrait of the Rev. Stephen Williams yesterday put me in mind of how at the age of ten he was captured in the 1704 raid on De...

Today is the anniversary of the militia uprising in 1774 that Richard Frothingham dubbed the “Powder Alarm” in his biography of Dr. Joseph...