Negative Space: A Sestercentennial Year
- The Battle of the Kegs
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The Battle of the Kegs took place on January 5 or 6, 1778. Soon after, Francis Hopkinson wrote this wonderful account of the debacle, including very personal details about the British General in charge!
- Cherry Valley: A Massacre of the Revolution
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Mel Gibson’s The Patriot is disparaged for the ruthlessness it portrays among the British. But such barbarity certainly did exist. One massacre by British troops is still remembered by the residents of Cherry Valley, New York.
- The New Colossus Breathes Free
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There’s nothing wrong with The New Colossus except the way the institutional left has twisted it into meaning the opposite of what it actually says. Emma Lazarus wrote The New Colossus for the exiles of government-sponsored terror to escape their persecutors to a land of Freedom, not for letting their persecutors in to continue the persecution here.
- Our lot is cast in this happy land…
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Samuel B. Young’s August 16, 1819, Oration to commemorate the 1777 Battle of Bennington.
- Padgett Sunday Supper Club Sestercentennial Cookery
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The Sestercentennial Cookery is a celebration of American home cooking for the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.
- The World Turned Upside Down
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The legend of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown says that the band played “The World Turned Upside Down”. It probably didn’t. But we’re going to print the legend anyway.
