Boston 1775

Through 22 January, the Massachusetts Historical Society hosts an exhibit titled “Josiah Quincy: A Lost Hero of the Revolution.” This coinc...

This time it’s James Madison . Google counts over 200,000 webpages attributing the following sentence to him: Americans have the right and a...

This is a curious proposal from Bruce Schneier , computer security and cryptography expert, published last month in the New York Daily News ...

Last month the Revlist brought news that the National Maritime Museum of Cornwall, England, is conserving an eighteenth-century birchbark c...

Last week the new Republican leadership in the House of Representatives arranged for members to read the U.S. Constitution aloud during a l...

20:22 Anyone know about Rhode Island divorce records, circa 1775? I'm wondering if Godfrey and Mary (Butler) Wenwood divorced around th...

Through the end of January, the Boston Public Library’s Rare Books Department is hosting an exhibit on “The Public Life of Poetry: Whitman, ...

I just noticed that the Boston Athenaeum ’s featured author for November and December was Hannah Adams (1755-1831). Noah Sheola’s essay sa...

It’s the season to apply for Massachusetts Historical Society fellowships. (That’s society founder Jeremy Belknap looking on encouragingly...

Old South Meeting House ’s series of lunchtime lectures this month focuses on “Fabric Arts and Social Threads: Women’s Work before Industria...

This upcoming weekend marks the opening of this season’s Hive Sessions and Workshops . These are workshops in tailoring and other crafts des...

And speaking of Judith Sargent Murray , her modern editor Bonnie Hurd Smith will speak about that pioneering American feminist this month as...

It’s a Boston 1775 tradition to quote a news carrier’s verse each New Year. These were printed flyers that newsboys carried around to their...

Earlier this season, Historic New England reported: We were surprised to find that one of the most popular museum objects [in our online col...

Loudtwitter is back! Thanks to all the programmers who’ve volunteered their knowledge and time to create that service. It allows me once mo...

I’ve spent most of the last several days polishing a draft of a chapter about Gen. George Washington ’s intelligence activities during the ...

There are only two more years to visit Mount Vernon and see the teeth that Boston native John Greenwood carved for George Washington out ...

Two years ago , I got word that Hannah Mather Crocker ’s history of colonial New England was being readied for publication this year. Then I...

This is a semi-famous sonnet by David Shulman titled “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Can you see what’s notable about it? A hard, howli...

On Monday, 19 Dec 1774, the British Parliament debated “raising the Supply granted to his Majesty”—i.e., enacting taxes, in this case a lan...