Lord Bolingbroke: A Tory Thinker that Jefferson Truly Admired
byJefferson scholars all knew that Thomas Jefferson often disparaged the label “Tory” in his political writings. For Jefferson, being called a Whig would signify…
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Rascally Cousins: Whig or Tory in America’s Mother Town
byWhig or Tory, which side to support in the coming Revolutionary War? Every adult in the thirteen British colonies of North America faced the…
Absolving David Fanning—from Dreck to Rumph
byI keep promising myself to write on how David Fanning, the Tory guerrilla turned British colonel, became a psychotic murderer off the battlefield in…
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5 Political Characters of Americans
byThe March 18, 1777 Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia) published an essay by “S.” that classified five political characters of Americans. The article was republished in…
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Establishing the Tory Myth
byOur understanding of loyalists in the American Revolution is a relic of the eighteenth-century turn from what one might call “constitutional sense” to a…