Boston 1775

Maureen Taylor, author of the Last Muster collections of photographs of people who lived through the Revolutionary War, recently posted v...

This summer’s Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife is on the topic of “Entertainments at Taverns and Long Rooms in New England, 1700-1...

In November 1768, New York newspapers went back and forth over the accuracy of their reports on an effigy-burning in that city. Remarkabl...

The burning of effigies in New York City on 14 Nov 1768 prompted a strong response from the royal governor of that colony, Sir Henry Moor...

On the evening of 14 Nov 1768, a crowd in New York burned effigies of two Massachusetts officials. Later that week, John Holt ’s  New-Yor...

As reported yesterday, on the evening of Monday, 14 Nov 1768, New Yorkers paraded with effigies of Gov. Francis Bernard and Sheriff Step...

The dispute over the Manufactory in Boston in late 1768 was so controversial that it managed to spark a secondary dispute in New York . ...

Boston 1775 readers might remember the conflict over the Manufactory House that occurred in October 1768, soon after the British regimen...

What with The Saga of the Brazen Head , the January 1775 brawl between British army officers and watchmen , the federal government shutdow...

Here are the line-ups of speakers and topics at two conferences on the Revolutionary War coming later this year. Though some of the speake...

B.B.C. Four has started to broadcast the new series American History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley  in Britain. The first episode, on...

Earlier in the month I passed on news that the Newport Historical Society had had to postpone a talk by Emily Murphy because she works fo...

On Saturday, 16 February, the Fort Plain Museum will host its first annual George Washington’s Birthday Symposium . The scheduled speak...

On the night of 20 Jan 1775, as I described back here , there was a big fight between Boston’s watchmen and British army officers, with ...

While the king’s army held a public court of enquiry into the violence on the night of 20 Jan 1775, the Massachusetts civil authorities...

The morning after the fight between British army officers and town watchmen that I reported yesterday, the higher authorities swung into...

On 20 Jan 1775, there was a confrontation between the Boston town watch and several British army officers. I’ve written before about s...

The scope of the Boston fire of 20 Mar 1760 really comes out in the list of victims that the newspapers published in the following week. ...

The 24 Mar 1760 Boston Evening-Post , the first issue after the great fire that started in the Brazen Head, reprinted the Boston News-Let...

The next Seth Kaller auction of manuscripts and printed Americana includes a print of Paul Revere ’s engraving of the Boston Massacre . Th...