Election Sermons and Collective Identity in Massachusetts, 1760–1775
by“It is Hoped that this People will Unitedly Exert Themselves:”[1] In August 1765, crowds gathered on the streets of Boston protesting Parliament’s Stamp Act,…
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America’s Revolution Against Toleration: The Rise of True Religious Liberty
byIn 1793, a widely circulated American editorial observed, “A few years ago, to say of any man that he was ‘a friend to toleration,’…
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John Adams: A Liberal Congregationalist and the American Revolution
byThere was a slight chill in the Massachusetts air on the evening of February 13, 1818, which caused frost to gather around the windows…