As J.L. Bell reminds us at Boston 1775, today is the 247th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. While the Boston patriots dumped East India Company tea into the waters of Boston Harbor, not all revolutionary-era tea protestors involved dumping....
Bruce Stewart is Associate Professor of History at Appalachian State University. This interview is based on his new book, Redemption from Tyranny: Herman Husband’s American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write Redemption from Tyranny? BS: I first...
Carlton Larson is Professor of Law at University of California Davis School of Law. This interview is based on his new book, The Trials of Allegiance: Trials, Juries, and the American Revolution. (Oxford University Press, 2019) JF: What led you to write The...
Joseph Adelman is Assistant Professor of History at Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts. This interview is based on his new book, Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. JF: What led...
Age of Revolutions blog is beginning a series on “Race and Revolution.” Here is what you can expect over the course of the next few months: Schedule March 5, 2018 (The Boston Massacre Anniversary & Crispus Attucks Day): Mitch Kachun,...
Jonathan Israel is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. This interview is based on his new book, The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited...
Last week we published a post on Stockton University‘s decision to remove a bust of Richard Stockton from its library. Stockton was a New Jersey revolutionary and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The bust will be replaced with a...
Tom Cutterham is a lecturer in United States history at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. This interview is based on his new book, Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Princeton University Press, 2017)....
Check out Michael Kranish‘s piece at The Washington Post on the time Thomas Jefferson fled Monticello to avoid being captured by the British during the Revolutionary War. Kranish is the author of Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War. Here is a...
Spencer W. McBride is a historian and documentary editor at the Joseph Smith Papers. This interview is based on his new book, Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America (University of Virginia Press, 2017). JF: What led...
Marc Ferris is holds an M.A. in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has written for the New York Times, Newsday, and other venues. This interview is based on his new book, Star-Spangled Banner: The Unlikely History...
Forget about all this talk of digital history and social media as a tool to promote the study of history. Todd Andrlik and the good folks at the Journal of the American Revolution are going old school. In November they...
I don’t seem to remember last year’s Messiah College American Democracy lecture being like this. The speaker was Emory University historian Patrick Allitt and the venue was a large tiered classroom on campus that held 110 people. The hallways outside...
Boston 1775 is running a post today on this 1770s engraving. It is entitled “British Troops Barricade Boston Harbor Against the Beast from the Unknown.” I believe it is a doctored version of the original. You can buy a copy...
I spent the afternoon with the Continental Congress Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at the York Country Club in York, PA. They invited me to speak about Philip Vickers Fithian and The Way of Improvement Leads Home....
Frank, what are you doing, you’re ruining the entire Civil War re-enactment! HT: Northwest History
