Boston 1775

Among the documents in the Samuel Adams Papers at the New York Public Library is a letter from the politician ’s second wife, the former El...

The last book I’ll highlight in this stretch of postings is no longer available in stores but can be read online —not that I recommend that....

Tea Party: An American Story is a webcomic from Sam Machado, Cynthia “Theamat” Sousa, and Amanda Sousa Machado, signing themselves as TAS...

Though Samuel Adams was cautious about pushing for the abolition of slavery as a politician, as I discussed yesterday , he seems to have b...

Back in November, biographer Ira Stoll published an opinion essay in the New York Daily News about Samuel Adams’s views on slavery , drawin...

Yesterday I quoted Samuel Adams ’s descendant William V. Wells on an African-American woman named Surry , who came to the second Elizabeth A...

William V. Wells’s The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams , published by Little, Brown in three volumes in 1865, offers this descripti...

On 13 Apr 1772, Samuel Adams wrote to his friend James Warren , a merchant in Plymouth (shown at left): I am much obligd for your Care in p...