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The Perfidious Benjamin Church and Paul Revere
byFor many years Paul Revere was not prominent in the history of the Revolutionary War. Extremely versatile, he was a Massachusetts militia officer and…
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Contributor Question: Remembered for the Wrong Reason?
byWe asked our contributors: Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era (other than Benedict Arnold) is remembered for the wrong reasons,…
This Week on Dispatches: Brooke Barbier on Paul Revere’s Boston
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer and podcast host Brooke Barbier about historic sites in Boston that were familiar to Paul Revere….
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Following Paul Revere Home: The Demolition and Preservation of Boston’s Landmarks
byHere’s one of the things I love most about Boston: If it were possible to drop Paul Revere in downtown today, he could, quite…
A Painter Abroad: John Singleton Copley Writes to His Wife
byIt may have been Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s patriotic paean that belatedly canonized a heroic horseman as a key figure of the American Revolution, but…
Coronavirus 2020? Nope. The Speckled Monster of 1764
byIn January 1764, a “speckled monster” struck Boston, forcing businesses to shutter and residents to isolate themselves in their homes or flee the city…
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The Penobscot Expedition of 1779
byFor much of the Revolutionary War, the relative obscurity and isolation of the three Massachusetts counties of York, Cumberland, and Lincoln along the coast…
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How Paul Revere’s Ride was Published and Censored in 1775
byBecause of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” most people think that Revere was critical to the start of the Revolutionary War….
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Did Paul Revere’s Ride Really Matter?
byThe biggest myth of Paul Revere’s ride may not be that Revere watched for the lantern signal from the North Church spire, as Henry…
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Paul Revere’s Other Rides
byMyth: “The fate of a nation was riding that night,” Longfellow wrote. Fortunately, a heroic rider from Boston woke up the sleepy-eyed farmers just…
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Dissecting the Timeline of Paul Revere’s Ride
byI’m a scientist by training. I received my master’s degree from MIT, which is incidentally where I fell in love with Boston’s revolutionary history….
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Dr. Joseph Warren’s Informant
byWith April 19 nearing, marking the anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War (the official regional holiday of Patriot’s Day in New…
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Paul Revere’s Other Riders
byMyth: “Alerted by signal lanterns, express riders Paul Revere and William Dawes eluded British patrols and spurred their horses toward Lexington along separate routes…
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Hyping the Boston Massacre
byDear Readers: For this month’s Mr. History, I offer a recent e-mail exchange between a friend and me. Maybe this is why not a…
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Most Overrated Revolutionary?
byJohn Paul Jones. A good ship captain and tenacious fighter but an abysmally bad squadron commander and a tireless self-promoter and schemer, who was…
12 Questions with Boston’s
No. 1 Private Tour Guide
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Ben Edwards is a lot of things–a children’s book author, Boston historian, collector of historic documents, relative of Paul Revere, and the No. 1…
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Second Coming of a Revolutionary War Patriot
byExcept outside of historical circles, Revolutionary War figures are not widely known, and are even more rarely celebrated. There are the ones you would…
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The Essential American Revolution Library
byThe American Revolution is quite obviously a very broad topic. It would require a huge quantity of books, even watered down to the “essentials,”…