As we noted yesterday, there were all kinds of abuses of tea going on in the Colonies. It (mostly) started with the Boston Tea Party, but also spread to other areas as well. The Boston Tea Party was n

When it comes to tea-related protests, the Boston Tea Party seems to get all the press, even though there was also wanton destruction of tea in Charleston, and then there was the Edenton Tea Party. Bu

Today we meet yet another prominent citizen who thought he had the solution for putting an end to the tension between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain. Its important to note at this point, we

And once again, we have someone (two someones, really) who manage to come up with a plan that will put all this unpleasantness between the Thirteen Colonies and the British Empire to rest, and once ag

Its one thing to hear someone hollering The British are coming! and quite another to actually see them arriving in your port. And thats especially true when theyre also seen confiscating the cann

Today we review two different pieces of correspondenceone local, the other trans-Atlanticin which the letter writers are clearly coming to the conclusion that things are not going well between the B

The interesting thing about surveillance in the 18th century is that, when youre dealing with trans-Atlantic distances, the information moves slowly, and errors can be costly. We told you not long ag

Alexander Hamilton isnt really considered one of the Founding Fathers, largely because hed only arrived in America from Scotland around the same time that things started getting ugly between the Col

Back when Mike and Claude were kids, February 22 was celebrated as a national holiday, the 22nd being recognized as George Washingtons birthday. Lincolns Birthday was February 12, so we had two Fede

Of all the indignities we laid upon Claudius Herrick in this episode (okay, there werent that many), the worst is that we misspelled his name in the cover art.