The Burning of the Charlestown Convent

August 11, 1834

Incited by anti-Catholic rumors, a mob from Boston attacked and burned to the ground the Ursuline convent in Charlestown.


Links

Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University

Book

 N. Lusignan Schultz, Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834