On August 14, 1768, the Daughters of Liberty cheered from windows as the Sons of Liberty paraded through Boston to commemorate their...
In the spring of 1768, Boston smuggler Daniel Malcolm approached the British customs officials overseeing the port of Boston. And so he...
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
Christopher Seider was just 11 in 1770, a working boy in Boston at a time when the city was awash in the...
On the wintry night of March 5, 1770, a tall, angry sailor named Crispus Attucks led a resentful mob of civilians in a fight...
Benjamin Edes instigated and paid for the Boston Tea Party – and, to his death, guarded the secret list of all who participated. Edes...