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By Karen L. Hayden Our society still has them, neighborhood “taverns”. In fact, the restaurant chain Applebees claims to be America’s neighborhood bar and grill. Why on earth would they want to do that? The answer is really quite simple. The tavern or inn has always been the place where people meet, eat, and come…
By John O. Newell INTRODUCTORY NOTE This essay is a very brief summary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. Obviously, this topic could fill a book-and has. Two of the best books on these events are David Hackett Fischer’s Paul Revere’s Ride (Oxford University Press, 1994) and Gen. John R. Galvin’s The Minute Men: The First Fight-Myths…
by John U. Rees The material in the second part of “Employed in carrying cloathing & provisions …” has been selected from a manuscript entitled ” The uses and conveniences of different kinds of Water Craft’: Continental Army River Vessels, 1775-1782.” The focus of this larger work is on vessels used to transport troops and…