The Lone Walk
At 5:30 this evening, Governor Charles Baker will take the Lone Walk, symbolically ending his eight years as Governor.
Tag: History
FDR’S D-Day Prayer
On the night of June 6, 1944, President Roosevelt went on national radio to address the nation for the first time about the Normandy invasion. His speech took t...
Further Thoughts on Monuments
As the debate continues about the future of Confederate Monuments, I have been giving monuments in general and our interpretation of history a lot of thought. S...
History Podcasts
I am an avid podcast junkie. I used to spend hours driving from one place to another on a weekly basis and I was tired of talk radio and commercial radio stati...
The Election Day Sermon
Election Day of the 18th and early 19th century was very different than it is today. In Colonial New England, Election Day was a holiday, and there would be gr...
The Story of the Pew
The most common question the Church Educators at The Old North Church are asked is, “what is the deal with the little boxes?’ The most common respo...
Slavery in Colonial Boston
In a previous post, I mentioned that I have begun giving tours of the Old North Church in Boston a couple of times a month. Giving these tours is an exce...
William Bradford’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the fo...
Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, Well Worth a Listen
My office is the front seat of my vehicle as I travel from facility to facility visiting hospice patients. As such, I spend an enormous amount of time on the r...
Civil War Reconstruction @ 150
A new blog has been launched that will chronicle the effects of the period after the Civil War known as Reconstruction. The authors purpose for writing this bl...