Boston 1775

I’ll finish off this week of mew books about the Revolution with the first volume from the Journal of the American Revolution , which post...

Preserving American Freedom is “a digital history exhibit that explores the complicated history of American freedom through 50 documents ...

The Summer 2013 issue of Colonial Williamsburg contains an article titled, “Life, Liberty, and No Pistole,” by Susan Berg. It begins: ...

In March 1766, Parliament repealed its Stamp Act for North America but passed the Declaratory Act , meant to establish that it had the pow...

Digging for the origin of the phrase “[no] taxation without representation,” I keep coming across some claims that haven’t held up: that...

As I wrote yesterday , most sources credit James Otis, Jr. , with coining the phrase “taxation without representation,” but he never actuall...

Until 2 Nov 2005, the phrase “taxation without representation” has almost always been credited to the Boston lawyer and legislator James Oti...

The American Revolution Blog alerted me to a new meme, or misapprehension, about the famous phrase “No taxation without representation.” Bra...