This is the grave of Henry Laurens. Born in 1724 in what is today Charleston, South Carolina but was then known as Charles Town, Laurens grew up in an upwardly mobile family. The family were Hugenot refugees who found their way to New York in...
American Revolution
This is the type of history--you know, exploring what really happened instead of repeating bullshit myths--that leads to Chris Rufo demanding personal control over all of higher education. Because, you.
This is the grave of Henry Knox. Born in Boston in 1750, Knox grew up in mixed circumstances. His family was upwardly mobile, with a successful shipbuilder as a father..
This is the grave of Mercy Otis Warren. Born in 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis grew up in the relative elite of eighteenth-century Massachusetts, which really wasn't that elite. I mean, even John Adams had his little farm. Otis's father was a farmer as...
This is the grave of Charles Lee. Born in 1732 in Darnhall, Cheshire, England, Lee grew up in a prominent English military family. His father John was a major general.
This is the grave of Deborah Sampson Gannett. Born in 1760 in Plimpton, Massachusetts, Deborah Sampson grew up with long Puritan roots that reached back to William Bradford. But the.
Martha Jones, one of our finest historians of the Black freedom struggle, has a powerful essay on trying to find evidence about the life of Abigail, the slave of John Jay, who attempted to escape while he was in Paris negotiating the end of the...
Happy Blow Your Fingers Off with Fireworks Day! On this great and glorious day, let's remember that one of the key causes of the American Revolution was whites discovering their.
This is the grave of John Trumbull. Born in 1756 in Lebanon, Connecticut, Trumbull grew up in the New England elite of the Revolutionary generation. His father was Connecticut governor.
This is the grave of Thomas Nelson. Born in 1738 in Yorktown, Virginia, Nelson was part of the early Virginia elite. He was educated in England, graduating from Cambridge in 1760 and then returning home. He married rich, owned a ton of slaves, operated big...
This entire thread is incredible. The picture above: It's just John Adams fighting a giant snake. A thread of images from a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861.Here is.
This is the grave of John Hancock. Born in 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts to a prosperous and slave owning family, Hancock's father died when he was 7, but he went.