'L'Amour à Passy' offers a memorable Madame Brillon but an unappealing Benjamin Franklin in this new two-hander.
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Book Review: ‘The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn’ by Robert P. Watson
Severely underfed, beaten, deprived of food and water as punishment for infractions big and small, and afflicted with rampaging fevers, thousands of prisoners died on British prison ships off Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War. Robert P. Watson draws on the accounts of survivors to paint a lurid picture of this hellish but little-known aspect of the war.
Read More »Interview with S.W. O’Connell, Author of ‘The Cavalier Spy’
Interview with author S.W. 'Connell, creator of the Yankee Doodle Spies series and "The Cavalier Spy".
Read More »Book Review: ‘My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History’s Forgotten Battlegrounds’ by Robert Sullivan
Take a rambling look at the American Revolution in New York, New Jersey, and a bit of Pennsylvania.
Read More »Book Review: Halestorm by Becky Akers
This new Revolutionary War novel speaks to today’s political concerns.
Read More »Book Review: American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger
The Boston Tea Party you didn't study in high school.
Read More »Book Review: Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Lessons in power and love from a living treasure of humanity.
Read More »Commemorating the Revolution at Green-Wood Cemetery
Everywhere we go we walk on history.
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