Dedication

      This book is for my beloved Charlotte, who arrived in Boston many years ago, as the first step of her American pilgrimage.

      Contents

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       PHOTO SOURCES

       TIMELINE

       INTRODUCTION

       THE BASIC FACTS

       EARLY BOSTON, 1630–1760

       The First Government

       Boston Turns into Massachusetts

       Indian Wars

       Loss of the Charter

       Science and Religion

       Foreshadowing the Revolution

       The Great War for Empire

       REVOLUTIONARY BOSTON

       King George III and His Colonists

       The Stamp Act

       The Declaratory Acts

       The Boston Massacre

       An African American Voice

       The British Occupation

       April 19, 1775

       Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill

       A Different Solution

       From Revolution to Nationalism

       End of the Eighteenth Century

       The Physical Scene

       NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON

       Miscellany

       The War of 1812

       Boston as Seen by Lafayette

       Turning Water into Dry Land

       The Cause of Humankind

       The Torch Passes

       The Irish

       Boston Area Humanitarians

       Coming of the Civil War

       African American Soldiers from Boston

       Boston’s Triumph and the Golden Years

       The New Trinity Church

       Boston in 1874

       Ethnic Wars

       THE MODERN METROPOLIS

       World War I

       Aftermath of the Great War

       Postwar Conservatism

       The 1930s

       World War II

       Urban Renewal—Phase One

       The 1960s

       The Kennedy Influence

       The 1970s

       Pride and Shame

       Blizzard to Blizzard

       The Shocking Charles Stuart Case

       Tall Ships and Tall Buildings

       The