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Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...
Browse 1,400+ revolutionary war stock illustrations and vector graphics available royalty-free, or search for revolutionary ...
Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.
A Boston native and current University of Oklahoma student plotted every U.S. hurricane landfall since 1851, totaling 307. The map reveals a surprising truth about New England: this region, known ...
An interactive map of the Boston Marathon Route, with details about landmarks and transportation options along the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Copley Square.
A big anniversary looms, as you may have heard. The American Revolution started 250 years ago, on April 19, 1775, in Lexington and Concord. Cue the fifes and drums. Or maybe you haven’t heard ...
The map shows the majority of reports were concentrated on the North Shore of Massachusetts, southeastern New Hampshire and southern Maine, where the epicenter of the 3.8 magnitude earthquake ...
View Revolutionary War Map of Boston, July 1775 (25) By River Charles; glass, with a cardboard; 43 x 44 cm. 47 x 56 cm. 18 3/4 by 18 1/2 in. 17 3/4 by 17 5/8 in. 43 by 44 cm. 47 by 56 cm. 45.5 cm. by ...
Medium Watercolor and bodycolor on ivory, set in the lid of a gold mounted lacquer bonbonnière with toistoiseshell lining, poinçon de la généralité, trés petits ouvrages of Jean Baptiste Fouache, 1774 ...
Comparing Boston's past to present with historic media Atlascope provides a database of historic maps, and Peter Vanderwarker documents Boston's changing architecture through photography.
They called him Billy. His real name was William Dawes, Jr., ancestor of Marietta’s noted Dawes family. He rode with Paul Revere on his famous 1775 midnight ride. But Dawes was left out of the ...