Boston 1775

Many of the sessions at last month’s History Camp Boston were recorded, and the videos are going up on the web now. I started the morning...

Thanks to everyone who puzzled over the Great 1770 Quiz , whether or not you entered answers in the comments! It looks like the competitio...

The Saga of the Brazen Head started in 1730 with the first appearance of brazier James Jackson in the Boston newspapers, and it’s reached ...

You may have noticed how in all these postings about the Massachusetts House ’s Circular Letter of 1768 , quoting politicians on the circu...

In the last, posthumously published volume of his History of Massachusetts , Thomas Hutchinson claimed that “the continuance of civil and...

This weekend is your last chance to see the “We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence” exhibit at the Boston Pu...

The Oklahoma legislator who introduced the bill I quoted at such length yesterday is the Rev. Dan Fisher, pastor at Trinity Baptist Church i...

On Thursday, 20 December, at 3:00 P.M., the Colonial Society of Massachusetts will host a talk by Colin Nicolson , Lecturer in History an...

Last month I had the pleasure of visiting the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. It’s gearing up for a major exhi...