Category: 18th Century
By Samuel Zeiberg Boston in the early 1720s was a town in the midst of an epidemic. Brought to Boston on a ship from the carribean in early…
Welcome to Episode 5 of “99% Sure”, a video series where we take a deeper dive into the history, people, and events that made Old North the…
Welcome to Episode 4 of “99% Sure”, a video series where we take a deeper dive into the history, people, and events that made Old North the…
Welcome to Episode 3 of “99% Sure”, a video series where we take a deeper dive into the history, people, and events that made Old North the…
Welcome to Episode 2 of “99% Sure”, a video series where we take a deeper dive into the history, people, and events that made Old North the…
By Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis
Has it been awhile since your high school history classes? Have you been watching too many…
We’re excited to launch today a new web series, “99% Sure” all about the history, people, and events that made Old North the legendary…
Q&A with Christian Di Spigna, author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, The American Revolution’s Lost…
This month we were grateful to Place Based Boston for asking us to share a reflection on how Jared Hardesty’s recent research findings about a…
The number of mariners among the early pew owners of Old North provides an indication of the importance of sea trade as well as its potential for…