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Battle of the Saintes
We often think that the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and the surrender ceremony of October 19, 1781, was the effective end to fighting in…
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Henry Laurens and the Grand Tour of Europe
In the fall of 1771, the South Carolina rice merchant Henry Laurens sailed to Britain with his teenaged sons. They toured the countryside and…
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Henry Laurens in England, 1771–1772
On October 9, 1771, a ship arrived at the southwestern tip of England. The Earl of Halifax had spent twenty nine days crossing the Atlantic…
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Communities Divided: Massachusetts, January to March 1775
On January 1, 1775, Charles Stockbridge visited his neighbor’s house in Hanover, Massachusetts, twenty five miles south of Boston. He heard a rumor that…
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The Love Letters of Alexander Scammell
One of our oldest known stories is The Odyssey, in which Odysseus travels from the Siege of Troy on various adventures to reach his…
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Traveling to the Second Continental Congress
On April 24, 1775, Samuel Adams and John Hancock arrived in Worcester, Massachusetts, forty miles west of Boston. They hoped to find three more…
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A Brief Guide to the British Government
We know the familiar figure of King George III, often portrayed by painters in either military uniform or his coronation robes. He is the…
The Twice Captured Lusanna
We often see books which boast of an “unknown story” or “secret history” of an era, and the American Revolution remains ripe fodder for…
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The Myth of “Granny Gates”
Earlier this year the AMC network aired a new series, Turn, about the Continental Army’s Culper Spy Ring, based on Alexander Rose’s book, Washington’s…