James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
New Hampshire’s Constitution, adopted in 1784, had some of the toughest restrictions on religious freedom in the new United States. It stated...
When a makeshift army in 1788 busted up a Fourth of July oxen roast at the base of a hill in Providence,...
In February 1788, George Washington was staying close to home at Mount Vernon, anxiously awaiting news from New Hampshire. The state’s constitutional...
Today, banks have lobbyists and economists to convince the central banks to create money. In 1786, no such niceties existed. That created...
The American Revolution probably wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the Revolutionary taverns where patriots and Loyalists gathered to talk...