Boston 1775

Yesterday I described how the Rev. William Montague of Dedham came to possess the musket ball that supposedly killed Dr. Joseph Warren —o...

Longtime Boston 1775 readers will recall our keen scholarly interest in Dr. Joseph Warren ’s body , head , skull , and teeth after the Bat...

I thought I’d finished with announcements of events this month, and then I read how Old Sturbridge Village is offering a historical present...

The Ladies of Refined Taste & Friends, in partnership with Minute Man National Historic Park , have announced their 2010 schedule of “Hi...

I’m looking forward to two lectures about the naval side of the American Revolution in New England coming up in the next two months. First, ...

Boston chocolate lovers will be torn this Thursday at midday. Not only is Anthony Sammarco speaking at the Athenaeum about the history of t...

On Saturday the Boston Globe ran a brief interview with Joel Richard Paul , author of Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a...

The Cybils are a set of awards for children’s books given by bloggers. Their criteria include both literary excellence, as in the awards gi...

Gen. George Washington ’s general orders to the army camped at Valley Forge on 1 Jan 1778 began like this: As this day begins the new year ...

As in previous New Year’s seasons, Boston 1775 offers a “carriers’ verse,” one of the poems or lyrics that newspaper delivery boys printed ...

Our “Blogging History” panel at this March’s O.A.H. convention attracted a patient audience of about fifty—or, as one participant suggeste...

One highlight of my 2009 was participating in a panel discussion at the Organization of American Historians meeting in Seattle on “Blogging...

On Thursday, 7 January, the Boston Athenaeum will host a lecture by Anthony M. Sammarco on “The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History,” ...

The Boston Globe reports that on 21 January Christie’s will auction off a collection of silver vessels that the First Parish of Beverly d...

The Smithsonian website offers Prof. John Ferling ’s article “Myths of the American Revolution” . Ferling explores how some common generali...

Here are entries from the diary of Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) in 1765. At the time, this Yale graduate was teaching school in Dedham, star...

I’m quite pleased to have stumbled into Georgian London , Lucy Inglis’s blog about life in the capital of the British Empire in the 18th and...

I’ve been exploring the rumors that Gen. Horatio Gates was secretly the son of a British aristocrat, most likely his mother’s employer, the...

Boston 1775 congratulates Old South Meeting House on the restoration of the clock in its steeple. The clock, installed by Gawen Brown in ...

Yesterday I mentioned Max M. Mintz’s The Generals of Saratoga , published in 1990. It traces the careers of both Gen. John Burgoyne and Ge...