Boston 1775

Today I’m passing on some choice passages from items about the eighteenth century I’ve recently read. First, Adam Gopnik commented in the Ne...

Since I’ve bearded other comics for showing eighteenth-century British-Americans with facial hair, I have to note that several men in Road...

I’m doubling back to Road to Revolution! , the new graphic novel about the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts by Stan Mack a...

I’m leaving the Revolutionary era to talk about a historical event I’m helping to organize called “Abolitionism in Black and White: The Anti...

The Bostonian Society is about to launch an online exhibition called “From Baby Caps to Mourning Rings: The Material Culture of Boston’s 18...

Fort Ticonderoga has announced that it has received the donation of a substantial collection of historical weapons. Grafton H. “Grif” Cook ...

In recognition of the visit of graphic novelists Stan Mack and Susan Champlin to the Paul Revere House this afternoon, here’s an example o...

Yesterday I shared some general thoughts about Road to Revolution! , a new graphic novel for young readers about the outbreak of the Revolut...

Stan Mack and Susan Champlin’s Road to Revolution! is a new graphic novel for readers aged ten to fourteen set in and around Boston in 1775...

Houghton Library at Harvard is exhibiting some of the items from its Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson through November...

There are only sparse records about Boston’s town criers , even though they were licensed by the selectmen, as I described yesterday . I thi...

A few years after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded, its General Court authorized towns to appoint public criers to announce the lo...

This is a photograph from Hillsborough, New Hampshire ’s first New England Town Crier competition, held this past July and promoted by the A...

Check out Caitlin G. D. Hopkins’s examination at Vast Public Indifference of this historic plaque near her home in the Watson’s Corner neig...

Following yesterday’s posting about fundraising to preserve the c. 1780 Caesar Robbins house in Concord , here’s an anecdote about Robbins...

Earlier this week, following stories in the local press , the Boston Globe reported on an effort in Concord to preserve the house of Cae...

On Saturday, 16 Sept 1775, Lt. Paul Lunt of Newbury was serving in the siege of Boston . He recorded this event in his diary: Cloudy this m...

As I wrote yesterday in my discussion of Tricking the Tallyman , New Englanders were familiar with population counts before the first fede...

Tricking the Tallyman: The Great Census Shenanigans of 1790 is another recent picture book on how Americans set up the early republic. It w...

On 1 Mar 1775, a group of middling-class Boston activists sent a letter to the Sons of Liberty in New York , asking to set up a regular corr...