The United States Congress authorizes each state to place statues of two people in the Capitol. These statues form the National Statuary Hall Collection. Most statues are placed in the […]
My vote for the most under recognized and misreported battle in the American Revolution goes to the Battle of Brooklyn. Even its name is misreported as many historians refer to […]
Today, I am going to speak about two of our more colorful, but controversial revolutionary leaders. One is well known and one is not. Both of them entered the Revolutionary […]
A sure fire way to answer this question is looking for books that sell more used than they did new. It is a simple measure of standing the test of time! […]
Unquestioningly, people assume that intimate relationships among the sexes in Revolutionary America were what we commonly refer to today as puritanical. Well that might have been the reality at one […]
By Sebastian Galliani and Gustavo Torrens National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 22724 October 2016 http://www.nber.org/papers/w22724 A Review Combining academic disciplines often lead to innovative and interesting new […]
By Steven Pincus Sometime in 1766 or 1767, Ezra Stiles, the popular minister of Newport, Rhode Island, and the future president of Yale College, catalogued the “struggles for liberty and […]
Faint reminders of faded prosperity No one walking, no cars on the street Zippos inspired rooms Sorry for the smell, others demand it Converted Carnegie library Beefeater guarding the entrance […]
Washington’s Immortals The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment that Changed the Course of the Revolution by Patrick K. O’Donnell Atlantic Monthly Press 2016 There are few full length histories […]
On the surface it is a simple, oft told story about family, enjoying outdoor sports, baseball and coming of age. However, Howard Frank Mosher’s new novel, God’s Kingdom provokes deeper […]
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