“When Boston Was Closed”

This year for the first time, we’re adding to our popular fall lecture series by offering a new live-streamed lecture in the summer. Our summer lecture coincides with Civic Season, the period between Juneteenth and the Fourth of July. Dr. Adelman’s lecture will be live-streamed at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, July 2, and the recording will be made available online afterwards:

When Boston Was Closed: Ordinary Bostonians and the Intolerable Acts

On June 1, 1774, British officials shut down the port of Boston as punishment for the dumping of East India Company tea six months earlier. Overnight, ship traffic stopped and the wharves fell silent. In this lecture, Joseph M. Adelman will discuss how Bostonians lost access to goods and work that they relied on and explore how working people coped with the economic fallout.

Joseph M. Adelman is an associate professor of history at Framingham State University and an associate editor of The New England Quarterly. He is the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789.

Funded in part by a grant from the Lowell Institute.