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Huzza!: Toasting a New Nation, 1760–1815

by Kelly Mielke

Toasts 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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Politics During the War (1775-1783)

August 30, 2022

One of the “Powers for Good in the World:” Mercy Otis Warren

by James M. Deitch

Students of history will no doubt have John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin at the top of their mind when recalling...

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Culture

July 28, 2022

Annis Boudinot Stockton: The Poet and the General

by Joseph E. Wroblewski

“Permit me to thank you, in the most affectionate manner, for the kind wishes you have so happily expressed for me and the partner...

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September 14, 2021

10 Amazing Women of the Revolutionary War

by Pamela Murrow

“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...

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The War Years (1775-1783)

April 20, 2021

“She had gone to the Army . . . to her Husband”: Judith Lines’s Unremarked Life

by John Rees

When 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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