Smithsonian Magazine

To Protest British Taxes, Men Dumped Tea Into Boston Harbor. With the Edenton Tea Party, Colonial Women Took a Different Approach

“We cannot be indifferent on any occasion that appears nearly to affect the peace and happiness of our country,” wrote the resolution’s 51 signees. Their words were republished in newspapers across ...
insider.si.edu

To American revolutionaries, patriotism meant fair dealing with one another

When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old. In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the ...
The Patriot Ledger

Was Massachusetts the first state? Here's when the state joined the country

As one of the 13 original colonies and the birthplace of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts has cemented its role as a significant contributor to United States history. Massachusetts was the sixth ...
The Boston Globe

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, the photograph as reliquary

CAMBRIDGE — The subjects of the 44 photographs in Wendel A. White’s “Manifest: Thirteen Colonies” range in date from the 1700s to early in this century. The show runs at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of ...