Ezra Stiles

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Loyalists, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) May 5, 2020 May 4, 2020

General Charles Lee Imposes Oaths of Allegiance on Newport Tories, 1775

by Christian M. McBurney

Major General Charles Lee visited Newport, Rhode Island, in late December 1775, where he—controversially—insisted that local Loyalists take an oath of allegiance to the…

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Constitutional Debate, Postwar Politics (>1783), Religion September 2, 2019 September 2, 2019

America’s Revolution Against Toleration: The Rise of True Religious Liberty

by Brian Patrick O'Malley

In 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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1. D. Smith Searching for Loyalists: Boston Harborfest (part 1)

Interesting discussion. I seem to recall the figure of 160,000 Loyalists left. Counting the number of Loyalists given land grands in BNA might be a good place to start bearing…
2. Jett Conner Presidential Power: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase

Thanks for your comment, Shane. I have a colleague who says of Paine, "that guy is a gold mine." It has been fun digging into his political thought over the…
3. Ken Daigler Enoch Crosby: A Hudson Valley Spy in Fact and Fiction

Phil, your question is a bit more complicated than it may seem. I will try to provide a simple answer: Enoch Crosby was a CI asset because his primary objective…