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Perceptions of the Boston Massacre-U.S.

First Edition ©2018 Robert J. Allison

This document collection explores eyewitness testimonies, orations, and images regarding the Boston Massacre, so that students will see the complicated nature of the event and its importance to the Revolition. As students analyze these sources, they will come to learn the importance of skepticism in...
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Perceptions of the Boston Massacre-U.S. by Robert J. Allison - First Edition, 2018 from Macmillan Student Store

This document collection explores eyewitness testimonies, orations, and images regarding the Boston Massacre, so that students will see the complicated nature of the event and its importance to the Revolition. As students analyze these sources, they will come to learn the importance of skepticism in accepting received wisdom. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.

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Central Question
Learning Objective
Historical Background 
Primary Sources           
James Bowdoin, Samuel Pemberton, and Joseph Warren, Boston’s Town Meeting Report from A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, 1770        
Colonel William Dalrymple, A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England, 1770
Henry Pelham, “The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre,” 1770         
“A Monumental Inscription on the Fifth of March,” Broadside Posted in Boston, 1772         
John Adams, Unpublished Open Letter to Governor Hutchinson, July 1773
Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 6, 1775   
Thomas Bolton, Satirical Oration, Delivered March 15, 1775  
Project Questions
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Additional Resources for Research  

Robert J. Allison

Robert J. Allison (Ph.D., Harvard University) is a professor and chair of　the History Department at Suffolk University. His books include The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, A Short History of Boston, and The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776–1815. He produced "Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies" for the Teaching Company's Great Courses. He is vice president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.