Wednesday, April 21, 2010

A new interpretation of the Boston Massacre

                                                                                                                (Bettmann/CORBIS) 
 
Another new interpretation of the Boston Massacre?  Didn't we already figure out that the soldiers were provoked by rock-filled snowballs thrown by a menacing, approaching crowd?  Didn't Howard Zinn and the HBO miniseries "John Adams" clear that one up?  Well, another historian has another idea.  Click here to read the story.  (Thanks to Adrienne Stang, Teaching American History Project Director)

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