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The Jersey Devil in the Twenty-First Century
This is a story about monsters, but not the kind you’re thinking of. Most real monsters do not have leathery wings or claws. They do not fit that stereotype. This is only partly a story of the hoary past. Though it begins in the late 1600s, it resonates with...
In the Shadow of Franklin
No figure has hovered over eighteenth-century printing in America or the historians who write about it more than Benjamin Franklin. The most famous colonial American printer, Franklin was by far the most successful practitioner of the trade before the American...
Folgers and Nantucket in an Anniversary Year
The first Folgers to immigrate to the New World came from the village of Diss, 20 miles southwest of the town of Norwich, in East Anglia, England. Part of the Great Puritan Migration, they crossed the North Atlantic on the Abigail in 1635 and landed in Boston...
Constitution Day
The following is an excerpt from Melvin Yazawa’s new book, Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and save the Union, 1787—1789 in honor of Constitution Day on 17 September. Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who famously...
