Imagining the Battle of Lexington

Imagining the Battle of Lexington

Apr 12, 2025 | Events, Features, Visions

A few minutes before dawn on April 19, 1775, British troops on an expedition to confiscate arms stored in Concord, Massachusetts, fired on armed militiamen on the Lexington Green. They killed eight men and wounded nine others. The remaining militiamen dispersed. The...
Ebenezer Huntington’s Revolution

Ebenezer Huntington’s Revolution

Mar 27, 2025 | People

On the night of April 21, 1775, twenty-one-year-old Ebenezer Huntington left Yale College and rode thirty miles to Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was scheduled to graduate in September — in those days Yale seniors were examined in July and commencement was in September...
Liberty Enlightening the World

Liberty Enlightening the World

Mar 23, 2025 | Commentary, Ideas, People

Raphaël Glucksmann, a French member of the European Parliament from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, recently suggested we return the Statue of Liberty to France: “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine...
Richard Henry Lee, Gentleman Radical

Richard Henry Lee, Gentleman Radical

Jan 29, 2025 | People

The American Revolution was a peculiar sort of revolution, and not least because it was led by men we find it hard to imagine as revolutionaries. George Washington, George Mason, and John Hancock were respected and wealthy members of the gentry. They had everything to...
A Revolution in Tar and Feathers

A Revolution in Tar and Feathers

Dec 13, 2024 | Events, Features

The American revolutionaries rejected monarchy, aristocracy, and religious establishments, the defining institutions of the old regime. They expressed ideals — independence, liberty, equality, natural and civil rights, and responsible citizenship under the rule of law...