Boston 1775

The New York doctors’ riot of April 1788, most chroniclers agree, was set off by a doctor named John Hicks making a tasteless and ill-tim...

When we left off William Heth ’s account of the New York doctors’ riot of April 1788, the anti-dissection crowd had started to attack the c...

In the spring of 1788 a Virginia planter and retired colonel named William Heth (1750–1807) was in New York , commissioned by his state as...