The “Boston Massacre” of 1770 seems proof of that portrayal, even if not quite in the melodramatic terms of Patriot Joseph Warren, who at the second annual commemoration in 1772 recalled ...

A lithograph based on W. L. Champney's illustration of the Boston Massacre. The image focuses on Crispus Attucks, who appears in the center, club in hand, holding the barrel of a British soldier's ...

The Boston Massacre is etched in our mindset because of an etching that stands as an indisputable example of 1770-style “fake news." The engraving by Paul Revere, which showed British soldiers ...

Engraving by Paul Revere. Title: “The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5th 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regiment.” Library of Congress ...

Thursday marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, the pivotal and tragic event on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers shot and killed five men, outraging colonists and hastening the ...

Portion of engraving by Paul Revere, 1770 “On that night, the foundation of American Independence was laid,” John Adams. “Not the Battle of Lexington or Bunker Hill, not the surrender of ...

CHESTERTOWN — Offering an account of the Boston Massacre that yields “fresh understandings of the cause of liberty and its consequences” and “startling revelations,” Serena Zabin, a ...

September 28, 2019 | Part Of Emerging Revolutionary War Symposium Boston and the Road to Revolution, 1770-1775 ...

On March 5, 1770, a turning point in the American colonist’s efforts to oust the occupying British from the 13 colonies took place – the Boston Massacre. Two hundred fifty years ago, American ...