Ever since I wrote about the Greenwich (NJ) Tea Burning in The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America, I have been fascinated by the various copycat tea burnings and tea parties...
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....
Thousands of white evangelicals get their history from David Barton (founder) and Tim Barton (president) of an organization called Wallbuilders. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txieT4ufDZI&w=560&h=315] In light of the recent peaceful protests and riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the Bartons...
Whether you agree or disagree with him, Wilfred McClay is always thoughtful. If I see his byline at First Things or another conservative outlet, I will always read the article. As one of America’s best conservative historians (not a historian...
OK, I confess, I put the word “Bachelorette” in the title of this post just to garner a lot of hits. 🙂 But as an American historian I can’t pass up the opportunity to call your attention to Hannah Brown’s...
Check out my piece on the Greenwich Tea Burning at Uncommon Sense, the blog of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. The post accompanies “The Politics of Tea,” episode 160 of Ben Franklin’s World and part of the Doing History...
This is well-done: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cT_Z0KGhP8]...
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...
Congratulations to Benjamin Carp, friend of The Way of Improvement Leads Home, who was recently chosen as a “Top Young Historian” by the History News Network. Since receiving his Ph.D from the University of Virginia in 2004, Carp has published […]
I do not subscribe to the New York Review of Books. As a result, I cannot read Gordon Wood’s review of Jill Lepore’s The White of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle Over American History in its...
Barbara Clark Smith, the curator of political history at the National Museum of American History and the author of The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America, has joined the growing cast of historians (which includes Benjamin Carp,...
I learned about another eighteenth-century “tea party” today. Over at Boston 1775, J.L. Bell investigates what may be the first use of the word “tea party” to describe the revolutionary-era destruction of East India Tea. Apparently a group of patriots […]
December 16 is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Over at Boston 1775, J.L. Bell gives us a host of things to watch in preparation for the event. His list includes online lectures by Benjamin Carp, Amanda Lange, Russell […]
Last night we did a post on Caleb Crain’s New Yorker essay, “Tea and Empathy: Did Principle or Pragmatism Start the American Revolution?” Today at Crain’s blog, “Steamboats Are Ruining Everything,” you can find his bibliographic supplement to the piece. ...
The New Yorker is running a piece, written by Caleb Crain, entitled Tea and Empathy: Did Principle or Pragmatism Start the American Revolution?“ Crain concludes: In the mid-twentieth century, historians trying to make sense of the paranoid style in American...
Check out Benjamin Carp today on Book TV. He will be talking about his new book, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & the Making of America. The show will air this weekend and next weekend at the […]
Defiance of the Patriots is everywhere! I am thrilled to see early American history getting this kind of attention. Check out this Time interview with Benjamin Carp. Here is a taste: You write about how the actual term “Tea Party”...
If you can’t answer this question you are probably one of the “New Elite.” Who are the so-called “Elite” that the members of the Tea Party despise so much? Do such “Elite” really exist? Charles Murray, writing in yesterday’s Washington...
Ben Carp writes in the Wall Street Journal: The original Boston Tea Party, in which disguised men destroyed more than 46 tons of the East India Company’s tea, has long had an uncertain legacy in American history. Knowing the full...
Today I received my copy of Benjamin Carp’s Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. I can’t wait to read it and do a blog review. The book is already making a big splash....
