Boston 1775

This morning folks from the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum have arranged a ceremony in Sturbridge to mark the grave of Samuel Hobbs, ...

Yesterday’s Boston Globe included a review of one of at least three overviews of the American Revolution published this season: H. W. Br...

The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia just opened an exhibit of Don Troiani’s paintings of the conflict. Troiani is not ...

The 6 Nov 1769 Boston Gazette carried this item at the top of its local news: Last Thursday Afternoon a young Woman from the Country was d...

On Sunday, 7 November, I’ll be the guest on History Happy Hour , a weekly video conversation with Chris Anderson and Rick Beyer of Stephen A...

In 1991, Sylvia Frey published Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age , mostly about the last years of the Revolution...

As I discussed in the past couple of days, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay in “The 1619 Project” repeated a couple of common errors about the ...

Yesterday I shared more than a thousand words about the American Revolution from Nikole Hannah-Jones’s opening essay in “The 1619 Project,”...

Two years ago the New York Times published a special issue of its Sunday magazine called “The 1619 Project.” And the historiographical di...

This month I listened in on some of the sessions of the American Philosophical Society’s “Meanings of Independence” conference . One of ...

The last two days’ fascinating discussion of ship ventilators was based on papers and nineteenth-century books that relied mostly on the ...

In 1741, the same year that Samuel Sutton convinced the Royal Navy to test his system for ventilating warships, the Rev. Stephen Hales (s...

As the Royal Navy expanded in the early eighteenth century, its leaders became more concerned about shipboard illnesses . Warships carrie...

Wayne Tucker began the Eleven Names Project, as he wrote on his website , to look into people documented as enslaved to the Dudleys of Roxb...

In 1843, the London bookselling firm of Thomas Thorpe issued its catalogue of manuscripts for sale, “Upon Papyrus, Vellum, and Paper, in Var...

Here are a couple more podcast reports from this weekend’s listening. At Mainely History , Ian Saxine welcomed Sara Georgini of the Adams ...

Yesterday I listened to this episode of the History Extra podcast , an interview with Nancy Goldstone about her new book, In the Shadow o...

On Tuesday, 26 October, there will be an online panel discussion on the theme “Questioning Our Storied Past: A Discussion on America’s Found...

Here are two outdoor Revolutionary events happening in New England tomorrow. At Minute Man National Historical Park’s Hartwell Tavern site...

On Saturday, 23 October, the Massachusetts Historical Society will host an online and in-person debate between the historians Gordon Wood ...