'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 »TV Review: ‘Turn’ – ‘Epiphany’
And with this week's Turn, "Epiphany," so begins the official formation of the Culper Ring, America's first spy ring .
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A History of Launching Ships’ by Avi Glickstein at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
The historic Navy Yard hosts an experimental work of magic realism rooted in the real history of the famous shipbuilding site.
Read More »Graphic History Review: Taxes, the Tea Party and Those Revolting Rebels by Stan Mack
“A History in Comics of the American Revolution” that depicts the high and low points of America’s birth.
Read More »Book Review: Halestorm by Becky Akers
This new Revolutionary War novel speaks to today’s political concerns.
Read More »Commemorating the Revolution at Green-Wood Cemetery
Everywhere we go we walk on history.
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