On October 14, the Unfinished: America at 250 partnership hosted “Remixing the Revolution,” an inspiring and entertaining evening of hip hop performances and conversation with artists The Reminders (married duo Samir and Aja) and Tem Blessed, moderated by Adam Bradley, professor of English and the founding director of the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture […]
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The Ongoing March: Commemoration and Activism at the Robert Gould Shaw/54th Regiment Memorial
By National Park Service
October 15, 2021
Explore some of the ways people have used the Shaw/54th Regiment Memorial since its dedication in this evolving exhibition.
Boston’s LGBTQ+ community took inspiration from the American Revolution when they held their own town meetings in Faneuil Hall. Their revolutionary spirit and tenacity changed the cultural landscape of the 20th century and beyond.
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The American Anti-Imperialist League at Faneuil Hall
By National Park Service
October 1, 2021
At the turn of the 20th Century, the American Anti-Imperialist League mobilized to protest against what they believed to be the beginnings of an American Empire. Despite originating in Boston and spreading across the country, the League ultimately failed in its objectives.
Perhaps no other building in Boston served a more symbolic role in the Boston suffrage movement than Faneuil Hall–‘The Cradle of Liberty.’ In arguing for women’s suffrage, men and women suffragists echoed similar calls for liberty and equality as their forefathers had during the American Revolution.
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Faneuil Hall, the Underground Railroad, and the Boston Vigilance Committees
By National Park Service
October 1, 2021
Long cherished as the “Cradle of Liberty,” Faneuil Hall played an integral role in Boston’s Underground Railroad network. Boston abolitionists used the Hall as a gathering place for meetings, during which they protested against Fugitive Slave Laws and formed Vigilance Committees to assist freedom seekers.
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Britain Begins Taxing the Colonies: The Sugar & Stamp Acts
By National Park Service
October 1, 2021
In May 1763, colonial Britons celebrated their country’s victory over France in the Seven Year War. One year later, they attacked British plans to tax them to pay for their own defense. Was this a reasonable and legitimate exercise of British authority, or was it tyranny?
When news of the Stamp Act reached Bostonians in spring of 1765, they opposed the new tax on paper documents. Reacting through the written word and physical violence, Bostonians played a significant role in the repeal of the Stamp Act before it came in effect.
In the decades following the Battle of Bunker Hill, Americans created a shared story of this significant moment in the founding of the United States. When the land of the original battlefield came up for sale in the 1820s, Bostonians decided to build a permanent addition to the Boston landscape that commemorated this event. The building of the Bunker Hill Monument took decades of work and cost thousands of dollars.
On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers clashed with the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Through this video series and article, learn about this “Decisive Day” and the bloody fighting that took place throughout the hilly landscape of Charlestown, across the Charles River from Boston.
