A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States
The Fourth of July, but not 1776: Independence and epidemics in Boston The Fourth of July that mattered most to Revolutionary Boston, the Cradle of Liberty, was not the one in 1776 when the thirteen united states issued a declaration of independence to a “candid world.” Rather, it occurred the year before, in 1775, when...Read More
