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Posted on February 2, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Jeffrey Simon on Propaganda, Terror, and the Sons of Liberty

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author and expert on terrorism Jeffrey Simon on the Sons of Liberty and the use of propaganda and terrorism in the run-up to the American Revolution. Simon reassesses the role of the Sons of Liberty in light of modern research on political change. Thousands of readers like you enjoy the articles […]

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Posted on December 12, 2019December 11, 2019

The Sons of Liberty and Mob Terror

The day did not start out well for Andrew Oliver. The recently appointed Stamp Act Distributor for colonial Massachusetts awoke on the morning of August 14, 1765, to learn that his effigy was hanging on an elm tree in Boston by a road that everyone who traveled into town had to pass by. The initials […]

by Jeffrey D. Simon

Posted on May 1, 2018May 1, 2018

John the Painter: Terrorist for America

Upon our arrival, I did behold a most curious Sight, which gave me further Cause to wonder about the true Safety we might here enjoy. Above the entrance to the Harbor of this town there stands upon the Gibbet a most piteous set of remains, being the last mortal pieces of a most heinous Criminal, […]

by Lars D. H. Hedbor

Tag: Terrorism

This Week on Dispatches: Jeffrey Simon on Propaganda, Terror, and the Sons of Liberty

The Sons of Liberty and Mob Terror

John the Painter: Terrorist for America