Negative Space: A Sestercentennial Year
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
