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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Sermons on the Death of Mr. WHITEFIELD.” A little more than five months following George Whitefield’s death on September 30, 1770, the commodification of that...
On the morning of 3 Mar 1774, Andrew Oliver, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, died. He had previously held the offices of provincial secretary and stamp agent, though of course he never got to do any work in that last capacity.John Adams viewed Oliver...
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Massachusetts Spy had gone a full month without a new issue.Zechariah Fowle and Isaiah Thomas had launched that newspaper in the summer of 1770 with ambitious goals. As described back here, it was smaller than the...
At Zagat, the chef and culinary historian Ramin Ganeshram shared the story of her research into Hercules Posey, head cook at Mount Vernon and the Presidential Mansion in Philadelphia until he freed himself from slavery. In this article, Ganeshram describes...
Last March we commemorated the Sestercentennial of the Boston Massacre. There was a big gathering at the Old South Meeting-House with remembrances of each victim. There were book talks and signings. There were many reenactment scenarios around the center...
*Trigger Warning: mentions of coercive control and financial abuse* Women in early modern England occupied positions across the “middling” scale. There was no singular “female experience” in this period, but a rich and varied...
Posted by Sara M. Butler; 5 February 2021. In Ohio, Governor DeWine’s landmark 8 December 2020 press conference has left the future of felony execution in the state up in the air. The indefinite delay in capital punishment announced back in 2018...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A FUNERAL SERMON … on the much lamented Death of the Rev. Mr. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” Robert Wells, bookseller and printer of the South-Carolina and American General...
Yesterday I recounted the British army’s march in February 1780 from their lines at King’s Bridge, New York, up to Joseph Young’s farmhouse in White Plains.The Continental Army had moved into that stone house and used it as a base to...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A DISCOURSE, Occasioned by the DEATH of the Revd. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” The death of George Whitefield in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1770, was one of...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A few Almanacks, and several Pieces on the late renowned WHITEFIELD, &c. may be had at the Printing Office.” When George Whitefield, one of the most prominent ministers...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Dr. Whitaker’s Sermon on the Death of Mr. WHITEFIELD.” In addition to publishing the Boston Evening-Post, printers Thomas Fleet and John Fleet sold a variety...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A SERMON SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” George Whitefield, one of the most prominent ministers associated with the eighteenth-century religious...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A Collection of HYMNS … By that eminent and illustrious Servant of Christ, the late Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” More than ten weeks after his death on September...
A chance to see the talk I delivered online for Vauxhall History and South Lambeth Library on 8 December 2020. I explore the story of Mary Ashford’s murder in 1817 and look at what it tells us about rape in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “JUST PUBLISHED … Dr. Whitaker’s SERMON On the DEATH of the Reverend George Whitefield.” George Whitefield, one of the most prominent ministers associated...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A most celebrated Discourse on the Death of the Rev. and renown’d GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” The death of George Whitefield, one of the most prominent ministers associated...
Tonight, on Monday, 30 November, the Massachusetts Historical Society will host an online talk by Jennifer Van Horn on “The Power of Objects in 18th-Century British America.” The event description says: Over the course of the eighteenth century,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A Collection of HYMNS for social Worship … By that eminent and illustrious Servant of Christ, the late Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” In the weeks after George Whitefield’s...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A most celebrated Discourse on the Death of the Rev. and renown’d GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” George Whitefield, one of the most prominent ministers associated with the...
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