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Thursday, February 20, 2020
“He was Billy, and the old servant of General Washington”?
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In 1777 a London printer issued a pamphlet titled Letters from General Washington, to Several of His Friends in the Year 1776 . James R...
Saturday, May 04, 2019
“All the strength and beauty of the antithesis”
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Yesterday I quoted “Bradshaw’s Epitaph” as first printed in December 1775. No American politician liked its final line—“Rebellion to tyrants...
Saturday, October 15, 2016
John Adams Views Trumbull’s Painting of the Congress
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In 1818 the Revolutionary War veteran and painter John Trumbull came to Boston to exhibit his depiction of the Continental Congress consid...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
“More Moving Parts to This Machine”
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The public discussion of Thomas Jefferson and slavery continued this month as The Atlantic Monthly ’s Ta-Nehisi Coates posted an essay ab...
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