Oscar Bredenberg and the Lost Battle of Valcour Island Letter
One of the greatest thrills for any historian is coming upon an important but little-known document, either through one’s own research or the work…
One of the greatest thrills for any historian is coming upon an important but little-known document, either through one’s own research or the work…
Just weeks after war broke out at Lexington and Concord, Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, working in grudging consort,captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain,…
Col. Edward Wigglesworth took part in some of the most consequential actions of the American Revolution, but, like so many such men, we know…
The Battle of Valcour Island was, in many ways, a waterborne version of the Battle of Bunker Hill: a greatly superior British force rushed,…
In July 1776, two hundred and forty years ago this year, the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, declaring the United Colonies to…