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More to See at History Camp America 2021
Yesterday I shared the video preview of my presentation at History Camp America 2021, coming up on 10 July.There are seven more video previews of
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Adams on Ruggles on Young
On 8 Feb 1789, John Adams wrote to Dr. Benjamin Rush about the creation of Pennsylvania’s wartime constitution, which was too simple and radical
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Losing Sight of William Molineux—Live Chat
From the Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: A Stated Meeting of the Society was held at the house of the American Academy of Arts
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Non-Importation to the End
In the summer of 1770 the Boston Whigs were dealing with the challenge of mixed results. As young printer John Boyle recorded in his chronicle of
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Trouble for Henry Barnes, “an Infamous importer”
Yesterday I started to describe how the town of Marlborough started to pressure Henry Barnes (shown here, in a portrait by his former slave Prince
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Attack on the Hulton House
On 19 June 1770, 250 years ago today, political violence broke out again in greater Boston. With the 14th Regiment off at Castle William, royal
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“The Town make choice of a proper Person to deliver an Oration”
Yesterday I described how Bostonians commemorated the first anniversary of the Boston Massacre in 1771, including Dr. Thomas Young delivering a
“An Oration containing a brief Account of the Massacre”
On Tuesday, 5 Mar 1771, Bostonians commemorated the first anniversary of the Boston Massacre.I write “Bostonians” and not “Boston” because
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Confrontation at Governor Hutchinson’s House
When we left the “Body of the Trade” in Faneuil Hall yesterday, Whig leader William Molineux had just threatened to storm out of the meeting and
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William Molineux and “the legality of the proceedings”
On the morning of 18 Jan 1770, Boston’s Whigs thought that Lt. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson’s sons, Thomas, Jr., and Elisha, had agreed to put their
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“Think/Write/Speak” Oration Workshop in Boston, 14 Dec.
On the first anniversary of the Boston Massacre in March 1771, Dr. Thomas Young delivered an oration about the event in the Manufactory building,
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“For being accessory in beating Mr. Otis”
Back in September, before other Sestercentennial anniversaries came along, I started to explore the 5 Sept 1769 brawl in the British Coffee-House
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“A young Gentleman, Mr. John Gridley”
As I quoted yesterday, the earliest newspaper reports on the British Coffee-House brawl between James Otis, Jr., and John Robinson said that “A
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Mental Health Diagnosis Startup Closes $4M From BIP Capital
Atlanta-based healthtech startup Nview Health has closed an investment of $4.65 million from BIP Capital. This is the first institutional capital