Thursday marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, the pivotal and tragic event on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers shot and killed five men, outraging colonists and hastening the ...

The bloody massacre perpetrated in King - Street Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. / engrav'd printed & sold by Paul Revere, Boston ; re-engraved by Sidney L. Smith.

Everyone who took American history in school knows the basic story of the Boston Massacre, right? On March 5, 1770, a band of patriots stood their ground against the British troops occupying their ...

On March 5, 1770, a turning point in the American colonist’s efforts to oust the occupying British from the 13 colonies took place – the Boston Massacre. Two hundred fifty years ago ...

in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. (Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division) Review by Marjoleine Kars Historians continue to assess the meaning of the ...

Hundreds of spectators cheered and jeered by the Old State House, watching as British soldiers clashed with American colonists in a special reenactment of the Boston Massacre. The performance took ...

In the years following the Boston Massacre, playwright Mercy Otis Warren wrote that "No previous outrage had given a general alarm, as the commotion on the fifth of March, 1770." Although the ...