Vast Public Indifference

In The New Republic , Harvard Law Professor Einer Elhauge delivers an awe-inspiring smackdown of the "originalist" case against th...

I'm sitting here, watching Who Do You Think You Are , working on Pete's family tree. He's descended from pretty much everyone in...

Jane Kamensky has a great article in Sunday's Boston Globe about how Americans think about John Singleton Copley. She argues that our c...

Here is John H. Sheppard , member of the board of directors of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society and librarian of the Soci...

If you are in Cambridge this evening, please consider attending this screening of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North . The ...

Many thanks to the readers who continue to send me excellent New England names. I apologize for not getting around to posting them until now...

I'm no fan of the anti-labor laws making their way through the Georgia state legislature at the moment, but Zaid Jilani makes a less-tha...

I'm sitting here watching the Duke/FSU game and I'm pretty sure I just saw a Subway ad for February's $5 Footlongs that included...

In 1774, about 30% of Newport's white households owned slaves.* Nearly half of these slaveowners owned only one slave, and over 3/4 ow...

I've been running some numbers on the population of Newport, as given in the 1774 census. Fast facts: Total Population: 9,136 people...

Unfortunately, the 1774 census of Newport only reports the names of heads of households. Nevertheless, there is plenty to love. If any novel...

Between 1704 and 1774, nearly 36,000 people were buried in Boston's three municipal graveyards (Copp's Hill, Granary, and King's...

LOL of the day, courtesy of The Globe and Mail : Right next door is the Granary Burying Ground. Here you find the graves of three men who s...

1: Tea Party partisans deride Occupy Wall Street as a "mob." It's not like I expect Sean Hannity to read Gary Nash, but serio...

US Senator James Henry Lane Big Jay The town of Osceola, Missouri has passed a resolution asking the Kansas University Jayhawks to...

I'm off to Connecticut this evening to prepare for a talk I'm giving at the Stanley-Whitman House in Farmington on Saturday. The mu...

If you're looking for inspiration for your Halloween costume, look no further than the Miss Universe 2011 National Costume competitio...

Stono Rebellion: September 9, 1739