The Royall House and Slave Prison
The slave quarters at Medford’s Royall House and Slave Prison are believed to be, according to the museum, “the only known extant separate slave quarters in the northern United States.”…Continue Reading →
At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution
Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →
In Nathaniel Philbrick’s New Book, How The French Navy Turned The Tide Of The American Revolution
The American Revolution is in its fifth year in Nathaniel Philbrick’s spirited new history, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown” (Viking), his…Continue Reading →