This is the grave of Samuel Adams. Born in 1722 in Boston, Adams started Harvard in 1736. Disappointing his parents, he took a greater interest in politics than the ministry..
This is the grave of Paul Revere. Born in 1734 in Boston, Revere became an apprentice to his father, a silversmith, at the age of 13. He served briefly in.
This is the grave of Roger Sherman. Born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1721, Roger Sherman moved with his family to Connecticut in 1743, where he rapidly rose in the colony's.
Rob Parkinson, a colleague from my master's program many years ago, has a great editorial in the Times on the connections between the fear of slave revolts and American independence..
For your evening reading, check out this Sam Haselby discussion of the United States as a secularist nation, including understanding its Protestant intellectual origins, the heresy of men like Thomas.
This is the grave of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg. Muhlenberg, a son of the founder of the Lutheran Church in America, was a Pennsylvania minister and supporter of the American Revolution..
And here I thought it was just Thomas Jefferson who bought into those effete Europeans and their wine. But no, it turns out that both sides do it! I was.
The Tea Party isn't through tying their own insanity to Revolutionary War touchstones. A member of the conservative caucus that effectively forced House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) out of.
