Boston 1775

In eighteenth-century New England, booksellers sold more than books, pamphlets, and magazines.  As the business letters of Thomas Hancock ...

The “Fashioning the New England Family” exhibit will be on display at the Massachusetts Historical Society through 6 April. It’s well wo...

This week I got a look at the Bostonian Society’s new exhibit “Through the Keyhole” and its attendant short play , “Cato and Dolly.” T...

Loyalist John Mein wrote one of his “Sagittarius” essays in response to John Hancock ’s 1774 oration on the anniversary of the Boston Ma...

One of the sources John Tyler used for Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution (1986) are the ...

This is an image of Robert Feke ’s portrait of Grizzell Apthorp (1709-1796), made in the late 1740s. The original now belongs to the De Yo...