Boston 1775

Christer Petley , Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton, recently announced the launch of a website called  Slavery and Revolut...

Some links recently led me to Carolyn Smith-Kizer’s Eighteenth-Century Cuisine blog, which offers this invitation: Explore with me 18th...

Sometime in the past week, Blogger tells me, Boston 1775 surpassed 1,000,000 page views. I believe those include visits by search engines, ...

On the night of 29-30 Aug 1776, the Continental Army evacuated almost all of its troops from Long Island to Manhattan Island as the bigge...

Don Hagist of the British Soldiers, American Revolution blog will speak at Fort Montgomery, New York , on Thursday, 13 September. He’ll t...

At Writing Women’s History, Jen Newby laid out the facts of the death of the Czech composer Frantizek Kotzwara (also Kotzwarra and Koczwa...

In other news tied to the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776, the New York Times reported on Sunday about local historian Bob Furman’s attempts...

At the Awl, Robert Sullivan is sharing a series of discursive articles on “how the trail of the Battle of Brooklyn would pass across mod...

Ira Stoll, a recent biographer of Samuel Adams , published an essay at Reason questioning Mitt Romney’s campaign promise to “eliminate”...

Yesterday’s New York Times Design column featured Jennifer L. Anderson’s new book Mahogany: The Cost of Luxury in Early America : In a...

From the NEREV email list I learned of the comic book Tod Holton, Super Green Beret! This magazine, published by Lightning Comics, lasted...

At the Imaginative Conservative, Daniel L. Dreisbach shared an essay (originally published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute ) on “...

This month the Boston Globe published a couple of articles in its local sections that might be of wider interest for folks interested in ...

Among the published manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth is the summary of a letter from Brigadier General James Robertson , datelined 13 J...

In the summer of 1775, Simeon Lyman of Sharon, Connecticut , was part of a company sent to guard the colony’s coast. Here’s his diary entry...

On Wednesday, 29 August, the African Meeting House on Nantucket will host a talk by Louis Wilson on “Rhode Island’s Black Patriots in the ...

In his first address to Congress, on 8 Dec 1801, President Thomas Jefferson   stated : Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigati...

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Groupe d’histoire de l’Atlantique français , with the support of th...

Boston 1775 reader Peter Ansoff recently asked me about this quotation: The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve i...

On 19-20 Oct 2012, Iona College in New Rochelle, New York will host the International Conference of Thomas Paine Studies. Its announcement...