Boston 1775

If you didn’t win last week’s wall calendar contest, don’t despair! I also have an extra Colonial Williamsburg desk calendar for the com...

Last Sunday I announced a quiz on early American politicians with the prize of a Colonial Williamsburg wall calendar. The deadline for ent...

The cut-off for answers to the 2013 Wall Calendar Contest is tonight at 8:00, Boston time. All research methods allowed.

Boston 1775 isn’t the only website discussing William Cunningham this week. Lora Innes has introduced him into her historical romance co...

Historians of British prison reform and genealogists seem to be doing a good job at filling in the details of William Cunningham ’s life ...

One of the mysteries of Provost William Cunningham ’s career has been the description of him that John Binns (1772-1860) left in his memo...

Yesterday I reintroduced the figure of William Cunningham , the British military’s provost martial in Boston and then New York . He was i...

Periodically Boston 1775 likes to note new Revolutionary-era comics. And here comes Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy , written...

I find myself with an extra Colonial Williamsburg wall calendar for 2013. It’s about 8 inches by 11, with a color photograph for each mon...

On Sunday, 3 Sept 1769, John Adams wrote in his diary about which sermons he had attended and then: Spent the Remainder of the Evening...

Until I read this week’s New York Times article on Henry Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves , I didn’t re...

A more salient element of the debate over Henry Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves than differing interpreta...

The debate over Henry Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves merited a long article in the New York Times yes...

Last week a regional edition of the Boston Globe reported on a discovery in Duxbury, “a largely intact woodworking shop dating from the ...

National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition just reported on Reporting the Revolutionary War , the new journalism-based overview of the Revo...

The days after Thanksgiving are always a good time to consider traditional New England cuisine. And how much better the Massachusetts sett...

When we left off with John S. Lillie on Tuesday , he was feeling triumphant about the election of Thomas Jefferson as President in 1800....

Since some folks are reportedly shopping for holiday gifts today, I’ll just say that I wouldn’t mind receiving this at the end of December. ...

For the holiday I’ll quote John Marston ’s recollection of Thanksgiving in Boston before the Revolution. Marston evidently wrote this letter...

Yesterday I noted how the late 1790s brought a spate of new American newspapers called the Telegraphe , most of which went out of business...