Many school kids have a special affinity for e.e. cummings, who wrote about the circus and got away with funky punctuation, made-up...
With friends like Richard Cutts, James Madison didn’t need enemies. Though Cutts was the rare New Englander who supported Mr. Madison’s War,...
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. From there, he would be...
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...