Boston 1775

Last month I talked with Ryan Chatelain of Spectrum News about the tale of Sybil Ludington . His story , headlined “Sybil Ludington is cal...

The Benjamin Franklin House in London has issued a call for papers for a conference on “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, to be h...

Last week’s postings showed how descendants of Henry Champion , particularly women who had joined the Daughters of the American Revolution ,...

Back in June 2006, less than a month after launching Boston 1775 , I wrote my first analysis of the story of Sybil Ludington . I posted a c...

It's not hard to figure out why the legend of Sybil Ludington and the Danbury raid became so popular in the twentieth century. It's...

I can't help but notice that one of the searches that commonly makes Boston 1775 pop up on Google is "Sybil Ludington," even ...

In February, I gave a paper on "grandmothers' tales" about Revolutionary heroes at the University of Connecticut. (See this ea...