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Len Travers

Len Travers

Len Travers is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He is the author of Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997). His most recent work is Hodges’ Scout: A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Features, Law, Newspapers, People, Primary Sources February 5, 2019 February 4, 2019

Casualty of Revolution: The Sad Case of Betty Smith

On October 1, 1768, two regiments of British infantry with an artillery detachment—witnesses estimated 700 to 800 men in all—disembarked from transports in Boston…

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