The Revere Express
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“Quitting The Male Habit”: Paul Revere, and Deborah Sampson’s Appeal for a Military Pension
By: Mehitabel Glenhaber In 1804, Paul Revere wrote a letter on behalf of his neighbor, advocating for a fellow revolutionary war veteran who lived near him in Sharon, Massachusetts to receive a military pension. The neighbor in question was the now-famous Deborah...
Thomas Edison’s 1914 Paul Revere Film
By: Mehitabel Glenhaber Paul Revere has featured in countless films and TV shows over the years, including Disney’s Johnny Tremain, and, recently, the Sons of Liberty miniseries. But Revere’s first appearance on the silver screen was actually in 1914, in The Midnight...
Curiosities From the Paul Revere Memorial Association’s Archives
This virtual exhibit showcases a collection of less-frequently displayed artifacts from the Paul Revere House’s collection. While none of these objects were ever located within Paul Revere’s North Square house, they each illustrate an angle of the famous Patriot’s...
Paul Revere and Boston’s Committee of Safety
By: Mehitabel Glenhaber As we’ve explored in other blog posts and our lecture series this past year, Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride was far from the only messenger work that he did to support the Patriot cause. We know about many of these rides from surviving invoices,...
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 Revere’s non-white neighbors. We were eager to share the information we did have, such as in an early Revere...
A Gallery of Reverabilia
The Paul Revere Memorial Association has a collection of at least several hundred items that we affectionately term "Reverabilia," or items made with a reference to Paul Revere. Spanning over a century and ranging from advertisements to collectibles to fine art, these...
The Fashionable Reveres?
By: Katie Burke Visitors at the Paul Revere House often ask us to identify objects they see around the home and to describe what they were used for. Some of the objects are easily defined, as there are similar items in use today, and others are more difficult....
Summer Weather In Colonial Boston
By: Mehitabel Glenhaber In the summer months, especially on a 95-degree day like we’ve been having a lot of this year, visitors to the Revere house often ask, “Wouldn’t they have been hot?” How did people in colonial Massachusetts actually feel about wearing...
Mourning, Mementos and the Marketplace: Paul Revere and the New England Funeral
By: Jay Shanahan If you were to visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston today, just across from Gilbert Stuart's portrait depicting Revere in his old age is a small gold ring. Known as a “mourning ring,” this piece of jewelry was one of the more common gifts...
Paul Revere’s “Other” Rides
By: Tegan Kehoe Listen, our readers, and you shall hearof the lesser-known rides of Paul Revere. While Revere is famous for his midnight ride on the eve of the Revolutionary War, he actually made a number of rides as a messenger for patriot groups. These...