| Contents | The Massachusetts Historical Review, 1

Volume I, 1999

Editorial Statement

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Essays

Today's Boston: A History	1
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

The Hinge of the Revolution: George Washington Confronts a People's Army, July 3, 1775	21
Fred W. Anderson

The Things That Were Caesar's: Tax Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Boston	49
Catherine S. Menand

"My brother preaches, I practice": Walter Channing, M.D., Antebellum Obstetrician	79
Amalie M. Kass

The Boston NAACP and the Decline of the Abolitionist Impulse	95
Mark Schneider

"You see I am addicted to facts": Annie Haven Thwing and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston	115
Len Travers

Notes & Documents

All's Well that Ends Well: A Twentieth-Century Battle over the Declaration of Independence	127
Malcolm Freiberg

Review Essay

His Scholarly Essence; or, A Philosophical Authority on Peirce in Search of a Wider Audience	135
Paul Jerome Croce

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