“One of the most powerful propaganda images of the whole Revolution,” Houghton Library curator John Overholt said about this Paul Revere illustration of the Boston Massacre.Photos by Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer
Nation & World
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Anna Lamb
Harvard Staff Writer
June 10, 2026
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