George Washington had a problem he believed no one had ever encountered before. On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army would disappear...
In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired...
In 1784, a Vermont moose went to Paris to settle an argument between a French natural historian and Thomas Jefferson. The historian,...
John Adams slept with Benjamin Franklin in a New Jersey tavern during the fall of 1776. They stopped on a journey from...
Today, banks have lobbyists and economists to convince the central banks to create money. In 1786, no such niceties existed. That created...