Vast Public Indifference

Over the next few days, I will be featuring the work of several talented undergraduates who have agreed to have their research projects feat...

Cross-posted at American Creation . I hashed some of this out in earlier posts here. Much of the discussion on this blog concerns the pers...

Over a third of the entries in John Boyle's diary are death announcements. These are generally fairly sparse: name, age, family connecti...

Every time I read one of John Boyle's thinly-veiled celebrations over the providential misfortunes of his political enemies, I think of ...

On August 14, 1765, citizens of Boston took to the streets to protest the Stamp Act. John Boyle described the crowd and its actions in his d...

On this date in 1772, a violent storm struck Boston. In his diary, John Boyle implies that the storm was a divine judgment against Andrew Ol...

On this date in 1777, John Boyle wrote the following entry in his journal: A Female Riot. — About 100 Women from the North-Part of the Town...

John Boyle gets a little snarky: May 30, 1765: Died in the 82 year of his Age, Hon. Thomas Lechmere Esqr. formerly Surveyer-Genl. of his Maj...

While I was reading through John Boyle's diary, I came across the story of John Morley. It's one of those things that makes you grat...

So what did John Boyle write that is so shocking that the NEHGR decided to snip it out of his diary? Nothing as shocking as I had hoped. I h...

I spent some time with the John Boyle diary this afternoon. Boyle was a printer's apprentice in Boston who kept a diary from 1759-1777, ...