Book Review Greenberg, Joshua R. Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. American Business, Politics, and Society. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. With […]
The Green Mountains are Vermont’s most iconic images which dominate the vistas almost everywhere in the state. The second most iconic image is that of Green Mountain Boy Colonel Ethan […]
Book Review Grant, Ulysses S., John F. Marszalek, David S. Nolen, and Louie P. Gallo. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap […]
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 […]
