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Huzza!: Toasting a New Nation, 1760–1815
by Kelly MielkeToasts are a familiar concept, but most people probably do not consider toasts to carry political weight or any real social significance beyond the...
READ MOREToasts are a familiar concept, but most people probably do not consider toasts to carry political weight or any real social significance beyond the...
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READ MORE“I desire you would remember the ladies”—March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams After reading the “Most Overrated Revolutionary” and the “Most...
READ MOREWhen the War of the Revolution began in April 1775, Connecticut resident Judith Jeffords née Philips was nineteen years old, had been married for two...
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