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American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
Harvard Book Store welcomes Virginia Tech professor A. ROGER EKIRCH—author of Bound for America, Birthright, and At Day’s Close—for a discussion of his latest book, American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution. American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy. One of the mutineers, Jonathan Robbins, had made his […]
Find out more »Rivals Unto the Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Long-time history lover? Broadway musicals have you eager to know more? Newtownville Books welcomes all for this free event. The bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series RICK BEYER discusses the epic history of Hamilton and Burr’s illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry. The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.