Yesterday Stanford’s Sam Wineburg, author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts and Why Study History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), dropped an amazing Twitter thread on race in American history textbooks. Here it is: Listen to our interviews...
What happened when British soldiers and their families arrived in Boston in 1768? In Episode 66 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast, we talk with Carleton College history professor Serena Zabin about her new book, The Boston Massacre:...
Many of us use Paul Revere’s image of the Boston Massacre when we teach the American Revolution. But over at the blog of the New York Historical Society, we learn that Henry Pelham was the first person to produce...
Check out historian Mitch Kachun‘s post at Age of Revolutions on Crispus Attucks, the African and Native American who died during the so-called Boston Massacre. A taste: Because so little could be verified about Attucks’s life, both white and black commentators...
Eric Hinderaker is Professor of History at the University of Utah. This interview is based on his new book, Boston’s Massacre (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2017). JF: What led you to write Boston’s Massacre? EH: The book...
J.L. Bell at Boston 1775 tries to answer this question.  Here is a taste: Bostonians started to call the killings on King Street on 5 Mar 1770 a “massacre” almost immediately, according to the official record. The minutes of the...
Over at “We’re History,” Serena Zabin, a history professor at Carleton College, offers a slightly different perspective on the so-called “Boston Massacre” and Paul Revere’s famous engraving of it. There is a lot going on in this short piece. Zabin...
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us, in a post titled “John Adams and the Rule of Law in Boston,” that Adams defended the British soldiers who fired into a crowd on March 5, 1770, killing five people. Of course we know […]
With the March 5th anniversary of the Boston Massacre behind us, Amanda Matthews of the John Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, reflects on why John Adams, a Boston attorney, agreed to be the defense lawyer for the British […]
J.L. Bell has been on a roll lately. Today’s post at Boston 1775 discusses the disappearance of the cobblestone circle that marks the site of the Boston Massacre (1770). Apparently it has been removed for roadwork. Nor is this the...
I was teaching about the Boston Massacre today in my American Revolution course. I wanted to show the scene from the John Adams HBO mini-series in which Adams, played by Paul Giamatti, is in court defending the British soldiers who...
My student Jason Stussy reminded me of this today. Boston 1775 has it covered.
