Boston 1775

Edmund Quincy wrote The Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts (1867) by drawing on his father’s writings and his own memories. The fathe...

This Thursday, 6 February, at 8:00 P.M. Samuel A. Forman and I will appear live on the History Camp Author Discussion feed , talking about t...

On 23 Jan 1770, as described yesterday, the Bostonians meeting about non-importation in Faneuil Hall received a letter from acting gover...

At ten o’clock on the morning of Tuesday, 23 Jan 1770, Boston’s “Body of the Trade” resumed meeting in Faneuil Hall . William Phillips wa...

The political prospects of non-importation veered wildly back and forth in the middle of January 1770. As I’ve been tracing , the month...

When we left the “Body of the Trade” in Faneuil Hall yesterday, Whig leader William Molineux had just threatened to storm out of the mee...

On 16 Jan 1770, the Boston Whigs circulated handbills for a new public meeting about non-importation. In Faneuil Hall , no less. The tow...

Having spent many autumn days outdoors meeting lots of American citizens, on 26 Oct 1789 President George Washington …got sick. He wrote i...

After my mention of the Convention Army yesterday , Boston 1775 reader Christopher Hurley alerted me to the auction on 1 November in Marl...

On Thursday, 30 October, the Old South Meeting House will host a book talk by Alex Myers, author of the novel Revolutionary . As the ev...

On 5 May 1772, the North End Caucus decided to support four men as Boston’s representatives to the Massachusetts General Court , or provi...

At All Things Liberty: The Journal of the American Revolution , Elizabeth M. Covart has contributed a series of articles on the interpret...