Boston Massacre

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  1/19/2021
  

  Early American Urban Protests — A Review Of Boston’s Massacre

  A review of Eric Hinderaker's new book "Boston's Massacre" highlights the shifting narrative of the events and their place in the national story, and the perpetually unanswered conflict between limits of authority and those of popular protest.

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• SOURCE: Phi Delta Kappan
  1/7/2021
  

  The Silence of the Ellipses: Why History Can’t be about Telling Our Children Lies

  by Sam Wineburg

  The fairly recent elevation of Crispus Attucks as a hero of the American Revolution obscures the complexity of his role in the Boston Massacre and illustrates the pressure for textbooks to conform to a triumphal American narrative rather than engaging with the complexity of the past. 

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Paul Revere Made the Boston Massacre a Flashpoint for Revolution.

  by Philip Gerard

  The incident that became known as the Boston Massacre didn't have to happen, and didn't have to become a flashpoint for violence after. As political tensions break into violence today, it's worthwhile to think about Boston in 1770.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/11/2020
  

  Violence As A Form Of Protest

  Professor of Africana Studies Kellie Carter Jackson speaks with WBUR on the relationship between violence and protest; a relationship which goes back to the Boston Massacre.

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• 3-3-17
  

  Why It’s Important to Remember the Way We’ve Remembered the Boston Massacre

  by Eric Hinderaker

  The people who turned Crispus Attucks into a hero of the Revolution.