Revolutionary Reads

Photo credit: A statue of Elizabeth Freeman courtesy of The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Black

Photo credit: Valentine, Esther Howland, The Metropolitan Museum of Art   Massachusetts is a place built on firsts. The first public park.

The Concord Colonial Inn has stood at the heart of Concord, Massachusetts since 1716, long before the first shots of

Deborah Sampson’s Revolutionary War service challenges nearly every assumption about who fought for American independence. Born in 1760 in Plympton,

In early December 1775, as deep winter began settling over New England, a young bookseller-turned-artilleryman set out on one of

By the end of 1775, the Continental Army had settled into a tense standoff around Boston. The siege had begun