When John Adams first met Abigail Smith, he wasn’t impressed. She was only fifteen years old, and he was eight years her senior. Besides, John had an interest in Hannah Quincy, about whom he wrote in his earliest diary, “That face, those eyes.” About...
In mid-August 1814, Secretary of State James Monroe, accompanied by a group of twenty-five cavalry men set out to assess whether British troops might attack the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. France and Britain were already at war when the United States...
During a time when the form of dress signaled wealth, linage and sophistication, gentlemen of status typically wore a three-piece ensemble consisting of a long fitted coat, waistcoat, and knee-breeches, crafted from fine wool, velvet, silk brocades or...
In his new book, In the Name of Freedom, former eleven-season NBA basketball ball player, Enes Kanter, relates his passion for freedom and human rights. Born in Switzerland in 1992 of Turkish parents, he immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen to...
January is often viewed as a month of beginnings, of newness, of resolving to make something better. January 11, 1775, was such a date in the history of the thirteen British colonies which became the United State of America when Francis Salvador took his seat...
More than sixty years after the first battle of the American Revolution, Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorated the clash between colonial patriots and British redcoats at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, in his immortal poem Concord...
