Boston 1775

Earlier this spring, while searching for uses of the phrase “King Hancock,” I skimmed a 1909 report from the Library of Congress. Oscar Geo...

This month brings the publication of Crankee Doodle , a new picture book by Tom Angleberger (who found fame with the Origami Yoda series) a...

This morning I’m at my third historical event in four days, and each has been in a different city. The first was my Friday talk on Capt. T...

In the Yale Alumni Magazine , Prof. Cedrick May of the University of Texas’s English Department reported on how his research team identified...

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married is a new book by Nancy Rubin Stuart, who...

Walter Spooner (1723-1803) was a representative to the Massachusetts General Court from the town of Dartmouth , which contained what’s beco...

Tomorrow afternoon I’ll speak at the Anderson House museum of the Society of the Cincinnati about this powder horn, inscribed with the nam...

Common-place shares an interview with Lucia Stanton , a self-effacing historian at Monticello, on the publication of her collection Those ...

A slew of organizations is co-sponsoring a public symposium on “1763 and the Americas” over two days in two cities next month. That event ...

On Thursday, 30 May, Boston’s Vilna Shul hosts an event co-sponsored with the Beacon Hill Scholars: scholar Joanne Lloyd inviting folks t...

On 21-23 June, Historic Deerfield will host the 38th annual Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. This year’s topic is food . In more de...

Today the Bostonian Society  opens an exclusive new exhibition: “1763: A Revolutionary Peace.” This year marks the sestercentennial—that’...

In the next three weeks I’ll give two talks in two different cities about two different powder horns from the siege of Boston . On Frid...

Here are a couple of eighteenth-century archeology stories from the past month. The Associated Press reported on a dig in Georgia that ...

On Sunday, 26 May, the Newport Historical Society will host “A Spectacle of Music” at the Colony House in Washington Square. This is a ...

The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library is hosting an exhibit titled “Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune ” i...

Yesterday I shared the first half of an essay by Dan Lacroix about stories told in Westford and Cavendish, Vermont , about a man named Ja...

Today I’m pleased to share with you the first half of an essay by Dan Lacroix. As a historical researcher, Dan has worked for years with the...

Yesterday’s posting included a recent photograph of the monument marking the grave of two British soldiers who died in the skirmish at the ...

So how many British soldiers died at the North Bridge in Concord ? How many were buried nearby? Those questions have answers, but not def...