All posts tagged "Sam Adams"
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16.3K5MassachusettsJoseph Warren, The Patriot Who Might Have Made Us Forget George Washington
Joseph Warren, say some today, would have been the first president of the United States had he not been killed at the Battle...
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19.1K10Arts and LeisureJohn Trumbull Gets a Few Things Wrong in His Famous Declaration of Independence Painting
Ten years after the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all...
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20.1K9Connecticut6 Revolutionary Taverns
The American Revolution probably wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the Revolutionary taverns where patriots and Loyalists gathered to talk...
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28.9K11frontAbigail Adams Vents to Mercy Otis Warren About John
In the spring of 1776, Mercy Otis Warren received a letter from her good friend Abigail Adams complaining about her husband John....
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20.5K2members onlyRevolutionary African-Americans Who Fought for Freedom
When Martin Luther King, Jr., arrived in Boston in the fall of 1951, the word “‘freedom” was very much in the air....
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19.9K39MassachusettsJohn Hancock Snubs George Washington
In the fall of 1789, President George Washington spent 10 days in Massachusetts, greeted by large crowds of people — with the...
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