Tag: American Revolution

“La Révolution Est Morte. Vive La Révolution!”: The Battles Lost in New York City

.Reading time 17 minutes.

This is the fifth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.”  By Deborah Wolfson New York City likes to tilt itself towards the future—ever upwards, always remaking itself and its history. New Yorkers, too, in popular imagination, are self-styled strivers who are never satisfied without new victories. I would not as a […]

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Early American Urban Protests — A Review of Boston’s Massacre

.Reading time 13 minutes.

Hinderaker, Eric. Boston’s Massacre. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Review by Bob Carey In this engaging study, Eric Hinderaker offers a masterclass in how to peel back the layers of data, scholarship, and propaganda to understand what we call the Boston Massacre. Such an approach, inviting views of a fraught […]

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