Contributor Question: What is Your Favorite Beverage of the Revolutionary Era?
byThis month, we asked our contributors: With many different holidays and celebrations approaching, what is your favorite beverage known to have been consumed during…
This month, we asked our contributors: With many different holidays and celebrations approaching, what is your favorite beverage known to have been consumed during…
Tea in 18th Century America by Kimberly K. Walters. (K. Walters at the Sign of the Gray Horse, 2019) Best-selling author Lucinda Brant offers enthusiastic…
“I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence.”— John Adams[1] A one penny per…
Historians are aware that imperial China had ties to the American Revolution. Indeed, James Fichter wrote that “tea, though an Asian commodity, helped bring…
1. MYTH: The Tea Act imposed a tax on American colonists (which is why tax protestors often revere the Boston Tea Party). BUSTED: The…
“Tory Stories” After attending the “No Tax on Tea!” program at the Old South Meeting House, I walked to nearby King’s Chapel, the first…
“No Tax on Tea! A Colonial Tea Debate”[1] On Friday July 5, I returned to the Old South Meeting House for the “No Tax…
My Quest As a historian, I am interested in how people understand and interact with the past. I find the question of how present-day…