Boston 1775

On Friday evening I went to George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters for a book talk by Hugh Howard, author of Houses of the Founding Fat...

William Hogeland’s essay “Inventing Alexander Hamilton” in the Boston Review makes interesting reading. It takes strong issue with what a ...

Earlier this week Mitt Romney, former governor and then critic of Massachusetts, gave a speech about religion and politics that concluded ...

According to Boston selectman Timothy Newell ’s diary, most of the military action around the town in early December 1775 was taking place a...

This weekend the New England Historic Genealogical Society on Newbury Street in Boston will host a lecture on the deportation of French nat...

Yesterday I started to describe my approval of Journey into Mohawk Country , a comics adaptation of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert’s rep...

Earlier this fall I discussed some nonfiction comics about the American Revolution , mostly published for the school-library market. I thoug...

On 3 Dec 1775, Boston selectman Timothy Newell recorded the British authorities’ second removal of poor inhabitants from the besieged town...

This afternoon I escorted a tour group through Gen. George Washington ’s Cambridge headquarters , and one of the Concordant Volunteers’ you...

I recently read She Would Not Be Moved , by Herbert Kohl, which discusses how elementary-school textbooks, reading books, and lesson plans d...

Yesterday I described the capture of the British brig Nancy by a New England privateer in late November 1775. When the Americans discovered...

As engineer Col. Archibald Robertson prepared to leave London for the theater of war in Massachusetts in July 1775, he asked Viscount Towns...

I’m taking the opportunity to pass on a call for papers from the American Antiquarian Society : Home, School, Play, Work: The Visual and Tex...

Gen. John Burgoyne led a British army south from Canada in 1777, but met defeat at the Battles of Bennington and Saratoga . The thousands ...

At the Northwest History blog he shares with Bill Youngs, Prof. Larry Cebula has written an interesting essay about Revolutionary War vete...

Baron Frederick William Augustus von Steuben arrived in Portsmouth , New Hampshire, on 1 Dec 1777 with his young French aides and a servant...

As winter approached, the British authorities inside besieged Boston tried to remove civilians who didn’t want to be there and would only ad...

Here are links to pertinent book reviews in the latest issue of the William & Mary Quarterly . Check out the contents page , or click be...

On 22 Nov 1780, Samuel Adams sent a letter from Philadelphia to Thomas Wells of Boston: when I was last in Boston…I then consented that yo...

Peter Stephen Duponceau was born in France in 1760 as Pierre Etienne du Ponceau. His family, genteel but impoverished, pushed him into a ch...