Placing the American Revolution in Global Perspective
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 […]
Category Archives: Liberty and Freedom
Smok’n in Bradford
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 […]
Revolutionary Meritorious Marylanders
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 […]
Self Discovery in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
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 […]
Silence is Dangerous
Normally this blog confines itself to topics in the 18th Century with occasional interspersed leadership ideas and random poetry. However, the significant popular support for Donald Trump’s recent call to […]
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789
Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian is the author of a new book chronicling the period after the American Revolution up to the enactment of the US Constitution in […]
Early American History, Nature and The Human Spirit 