Flashpoints

The Sunday Night Reader for 10/31/21

A Flashpoint that Lasted 20 Years

The Boston Massacre was more than six years before the Declaration of Independence. The Intolerable Acts were two years before the signing. Bunker Hill, just over a year. The Treaty of Paris was six years after the declaration, and Washington was inaugurated six years later.

We see it as a single moment in history, a flas…