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A frozen cannon trail: How a Berkshires mission tested a young bookseller
A patchwork of volunteer historians across Western Massachusetts continue to zero in on the likely path of Henry Knox, 250 years after he managed an astonishing feat of engineering and transportation. -
Despite scrutiny in life and death, Phillis Wheatley endures as a trailblazing poetess
The Boston poet has long been recognized as the first person of African descent in North America to publish a book. -
These places west of Boston might have a better claim as the birthplace of the Revolution
The British had already lost control of most of Massachusetts before the Battles of Lexington and Concord. -
Before the American Revolution, these Massachusetts publishers rebelled in print
Newspapers like the Massachusetts Spy published bold, new ideas — and the shortcomings of their British leaders. -
Old broadsides and receipts offer hints to America's Black Revolutionary War soldiers
Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover more about these men and their families. -
Were Paul Revere’s political cartoons more influential than his midnight ride?
The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames of dissent. -
In Boston’s Green Dragon Tavern, revolutionaries brewed their plans for resistance
The original tavern was a favorite spot of early colonial Americans like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
