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Let’s face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can’t take advantage...
Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
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J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn., in the late 1600s. They took their name...