Boston 1775

This Daily Press article out of Newport News about marine archeology in the York River near Yorktown speaks to human perseverance in a...

A couple of days back I quoted a deposition from Pvt. Joshua Williams of His Majesty’s 29th Regiment about a bad encounter with Bostonians...

Christian Di Spigna, author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero is making an...

Yesterday I quoted a deposition by a sergeant of the 29th Regiment about his run-in with John Ruddock , justice of the peace and captain ...

I’ve gotten away from reporting on what was happening in Boston 250 years ago, but this date offers a chance to catch up. John Ruddock wa...

The Saratogian reports on a four-week project at Saratoga National Historical Park in which military veterans help archeologists searc...

The Yale News recently interviewed Prof. Joanne Freeman about her work on Alexander Hamilton . The article explains: For a long time F...

Tonight at Old South Meeting House, Richard Boles will speak on the topic “Interracial But Not Integrated: African Americans, Native America...

In The Atlantic , Parker Richards reports on a push in Vermont to amend the state constitution to remove the clause referring to slavery...

On 2 June 1780, as I described yesterday , a crowd of over 50,000 people surrounded Parliament while Lord George Gordon presented a petiti...

The engraving above shows Lord George Gordon, youngest son of the Duke of Gordon, delivering a petition to Parliament in 1780. That docum...

In the last two days I ran into two false Founder’s Quotes on Twitter: a statement attributed to John Hancock at a council with Iroquois...

The next session of the “Declaring Independence: Then & Now” public reading and discussion of the Declaration of Independence will t...

For half a century after Robert Newman the Old North sexton killed himself in 1804, nobody much outside of his family remembered him. ...

I’m seeking to distinguish the two men named Robert Newman who lived in the North End and died two years apart in 1804 and 1806. Accord...

On 13 Mar 1806, the Independent Chronicle of Boston ran this death notice: Mr. Robert Newman, aged 51. His funeral will be from his lat...

Yesterday I examined the facts and logic of a recent USA Today opinion essay , “Killing the Electoral College Means Rural Americans Woul...

The Nevada legislature just voted to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact , another step to ensuring the Electoral College coun...

There was a lot of news coverage earlier this month about locating a letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette that wa...

The Foundling Museum in London is mounting a new exhibit focusing on the visual  artist William Hogarth in an innovative way: Hogarth...