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Revolution acts: selections from the SPNEA collection.
Compared to traditional decorative arts collections, the holdings of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) in Boston are remarkable because they not only contain wonderful examples of furniture, ceramics, paintings, and the like but also preserve the human stories behind them. This wealth of narrative has made possible a new kind of exhibition: Cherished Possessions: A New England Legacy, currently touring nationally, which presents approximately two hundred objects in the context of the lives of their owners. While the objects, dating from the seventeenth to the middle of the twentieth century, are visually striking, their stories provide ...
- Boston Massacre // BC Inflicts Another Devastating Loss on Notre Dame
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Brian Hewitt October 9, 1994 700+ words
BOSTON COLLEGE 30 NOTRE DAME 11 CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. In a perfect New England autumn afternoon, Notre Dame was perfectly awful. Boston College out-blocked, out-tackled, out-ran, out-passed, out...
- Unsolved History: The Boston Massacre.
- Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette Manning, William September 22, 2007 700+ words
Unsolved History: The Boston Massacre The History Channel, one...The evidence shows that the Boston Massacre was not a massacre, but a riot...Dorty. Dorty argues that the Boston Massacre was a case of murder since the...
- Boston Massacre Trials: 1770
- Reference information from: Great American Trials DiCanio, Teddi January 1, 2002 700+ words
Boston Massacre Trials: 1770 Defendants: Captain Thomas Preston; Corporal William...Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts. This scene, known as the Boston Massacre, came after months of feuding between Bostonians and the soldiers...
- BOSTON MASSACRE
- Reference information from: Young Students Learning Library January 1, 1996 700+ words
...00-00-0000 The incident Americans call ``the Boston Massacre'' was really a riot, or street fight. The fighters...was one of the leaders of the colonists at the Boston Massacre. When the soldiers' shots rang out, he was one...
- Boston Massacre
- Reference information from: The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana Tad Tuleja January 1, 1994 700+ words
00-00-0000 Boston Massacre Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770) A skirmish between Boston-based British redcoats and tax-protesting citizens that resulted in the troops firing on a crowd, killing five--among them the mulatto freedman Crispus...
- 'Boston massacre.' (anger over MediaOne's headquarters relocation prompts...
- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable Higgins, John M. August 11, 1997 700+ words
...business and its senior management team." Reached the morning of what some MediaOne staffers half-jokingly called the "Boston massacre," Hostetter wouldn't elaborate. However, associates said that the previous day Hostetter at one point had been near...
- The Boston massacre: on a cold winter's night in 1770, a regiment of British...
- Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic Olson, Tod November 15, 2004 700+ words
...1770, violence broke out. A young law clerk, Jonathan Austin, was an eyewitness to the event that would be called the Boston Massacre. SCENE I Jonathan Austin: The trouble started around noon on a Friday, the second of March. A group of rope makers was...
- Re-enactment marks Boston Massacre.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Molina, Edwin March 6, 2000 700+ words
The British are coming again. The Bostonian Society yesterday commemorated the 230th anniversary of the infamous Boston Massacre by holding various free events along the Freedom Trial. With the help of manuscripts, artifacts and archives, the...
Source: HighBeam Research, Revolution acts: selections from the SPNEA collection.