Boston 1775

On Tuesday, 12 May, the Lincoln Minute Men will host a slide show and lecture by John Horrigan on “Great Fires of the American Revolution....

The September 1775 hurricane that got dubbed the “hurricane of independence” didn’t actually affect the course of the Revolutionary War. Bu...

These days, we track storms and hurricanes with planes, radar, and satellites. We all have experience watching big storms pass over Caribbea...

Back at this posting , a long-time Boston 1775 reader asked whether Benjamin Franklin was left-handed, as portrayed (by Howard Da Silva ) ...

Prof. Benjamin Carp of Tufts is at work on a thorough new study of the Boston Tea Party . He’s been mulling over the connections and discon...

And speaking of ersatz Samuel Adams quotations, here’s another one that’s been spread around: When the government fears the people, there ...

In February, Brendan Steinhauser , an organizer for the FreedomWorks lobbying organization, posted advice on “How to Start Your Own Tea Part...

Here are some of the upcoming Revolutionary-history events in greater Boston which have caught my eye. Thursday, 7 May, 5:15 P.M. Eliga H. G...

Today is Free Comic Book Day , so I’m featuring another Revolutionary War comic, brought to my attention by Boston 1775 reader Judith Catal...

The University of Main at Orono will host a conference on “Loyalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic World” on 4-7 June 2009. The keynote spe...

Earlier this spring many Americans seemed to discover that there’s a piracy problem off the eastern coast of Africa. The international news ...

While I was away last weekend, Boston 1775 reader Guy Curtis kept me up to date with this C.N.N. report on a recent discovery of copies of...

If you haven’t already read the fourth-quarter 2008 issue of Massachusetts Banker magazine (and I know you’ve been busy), you can download ...

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...

Of course xkcd would have noticed that electrons have too much negativity. But thank goodness they’re also doing something about it.

Folks interested in military strategy and tactics might enjoy Graphic Firing Table’s long article on what went wrong for the British milita...

On Sunday evening I had the honor of being the keynote speaker at Boston National Historical Park ’s annual “Paul Revere’s Row” reenactment,...

At the blog of the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Jeff Croteau offered a look at an official period copy of Joseph Palmer’s letter ...