Battle of Long Island
Dawn crept over the wooded hills of western Long Island, a thin gray light revealing the damp fields and narrow roads where the fate of the young Revolution was about to pivot. The air was heavy,...
The Controversial History of Nevada’s Comstock Lode
The American Revolution produced a number of unlikely war heroes who came out of nowhere to become leading generals in the Continental Army. Henry Knox, for example, was a bookseller in Boston who...
