Saturday, March 06, 2010

The Boston Massacre: Was it murder?

Richard Archer, professor of history emeritus at Whittier College, discusses on the Oxford University Press blog why he thinks the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, was murder.

About the image: A rendering of Boston Massacre victim Crispus Attucks, ca. 1897. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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