Boston 1775

In August I visited the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which opened to great fanfare earlier this year. Like the Am...

James Lloyd was born in Boston in December 1769 and named after his grandfather, a respected physician. During the early 1770s, Dr. Lloyd...

The Department of History & Classics at Providence College in Rhode Island is launching a Seminar on the History of Early America. ...

On Tuesday, 10 October, the Massachusetts Historical Society will host a session of the Boston Environmental History Seminar series . Ja...

Laurel Daen recently reviewed Jennifer Van Horn’s The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America for H-Net. Here’s an interest...

Once the French entered the war against the British, the fighting expanded around the globe to wherever those two empires were in conflic...

October is Massachusetts’s Archaeology Month, and  Minute Man National Historical Park is offering two programs on the field. Saturday,...

A couple of intriguing academic conferences are happening in Philadelphia this month. I’m sharing links to the programs for people who are...

On Saturday, 7 October, Ian Ruskin will perform his one-person play To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine in Faneuil Ha...

At Politico, Matthew Olsen and Benjamin Haas published an essay titled “The Electoral College Is a National Security Threat”: In Federa...

On Tuesday, 3 October, the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy will host a panel discussion on “Abigail Adams Smith and the Evolution o...

I’ve been considering this statement about the Boston Massacre , which Caleb Bates , born in Hingham in 1780, gave to the librarian of Harv...

Yesterday I quoted a description of Capt. Thomas Preston , the British army officer tried for the Boston Massacre , credited to “Miss Tro...

On 17 May 1856, John Langdon Sibley, librarian of Harvard University (shown here), recorded this conversation about the Boston Massacre ...

[ADDENDUM: This event has been canceled because of volunteer organizers’ family responsibilities.] On Saturday, 30 September, the Loring G...

The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester has a full schedule of events coming up. Here are those touching on the eighteenth century. ...

In his memoirs of the Revolution, New Jersey politician Elias Boudinot included this ancedote, headlined “Scarcity of Powder at Boston”: ...

Charles E. Frye is writing the novel series Duty in the Cause of Liberty to share the story of his ancestor Isaac Frye of Wilton, New Ham...

Back in 2014 I wrote about  finally finding online copies of the journals of the Massachusetts House through the HathiTrust. Though the...

In a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia dated 19 Sept 1775, Gen. Charles Lee complained about the Continental Army ’s New Engla...