by prhstaff | Apr 22, 2025 | Revere House Radio
Revere House Radio For the last episode of Season Four, recent Paul Revere House Research Fellow Ryan Bachman discusses his research into Black residents in the North End, in the decade that legal slavery ended in Massachusetts and the decades that followed. He...
by prhstaff | Apr 22, 2025 | Blog
Introducing a New Map of Paul Revere’s Neighbors: the North End’s Black History from 1780 to 1810 Boston was racially diverse in the decades surrounding the American Revolution, but until recently, the Paul Revere House had relatively little information on...
by prhstaff | Apr 8, 2025 | Revere House Radio
Revere House Radio In this episode we welcome Sarah McDonough of the Lexington History Museums. We discuss what happened when Paul Revere reached Lexington, some individuals’ stories from that revolutionary moment and that era, and the magic that happens in both...
by prhstaff | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog
“Mark Hung in Chains:” Slavery & Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride By: Nina Rodwin When visitors to the Paul Revere House learn about the Midnight Ride, they are often surprised that Revere was not celebrated for that mission during his lifetime. Although...
by prhstaff | Aug 22, 2020 | Blog
Onesimus Mather and the Origins of Inoculation in Boston By: Rowan Wheeler In 1721, Boston was in the middle of a mass exodus. That summer, hundreds of Bostonians fled to smaller villages and towns to escape the threat of smallpox. That year’s pandemic would wipe out...
