Boston 1775

Common-Place just published an article about eighteenth-century marine insurance that, because it comes from Hannah Farber, author of the...

The Journal of Religious History recently made Luke Ritter’s article “Pope's Day and the Language of Popery in Eighteenth-Century New En...

Benjamin Anderson just reviewed Brad A. Jones’s Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic for H-Early...

Although John Frith expressed his grievance against the British government using the language of rights and social contracts, his cause was...

One goal of the attorneys defending John Frith against the charge of treason, as yesterday’s recap showed , was to let him express his own...

As I described yesterday , John Frith refused to let his lawyers delay his trial for treason in April 1790, so the judges decided to start...

Last month I left John Frith in Newgate prison, about to be put on trial for treason after people had seen him throw a rock at King George...

On 29 Mar 1781, a blacksmith named Benjamin Montanye (1745–1825) was detained near Haverstraw, New York , by a Loyalist squad under Lt. Ja...

The new issue of Colonial Williamsburg’s Trend & Traditon magazine offers an interesting article by Jon Kukla about a 1781 copy of the...

A couple of news stories about British art caught my eye recently. In 1727 Sir Robert Walpole , then defining the post of prime minister, ...

I liked this Smithsonian article throwing cold water on the idea that the Culper spy ring included a woman known as “355.” As Bill Bley...

Back in June 2021 , I noted a news story that the Montpelier Foundation was changing its bylaws to ensure that descendants of people enslave...

As long as I’m linking to videos, here are two from museums about eighteenth-century military art. The British National Gallery is restori...

This has been a busy week in video events for me. I delivered two live talks, video-chatted with the Mount Vernon Book Group, and recorded a...

The U.S. senate is holding hearings on the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice. Some senators have come out against giving this nomine...

Yesterday I gave a presentation about how the Revolutionary War disrupted the lives of women in and around Boston. Among the documents I u...

America’s History, L.L.C., is offering a tour of “The Revolutionary World of Dr. Joseph Warren” on 1-4 June. The leader will be Christia...

Among the documents in the Samuel Adams Papers at the New York Public Library is a letter from the politician ’s second wife, the former El...

Earlier this year the Yale Alumni Magazine ran a feature headlined “A reckoning with our past,” reexamining the university’s historic ties...

Last week the Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Mount Vernon announced the finalists of the 2022 Ge...